Ipcc climate report

As the 10th anniversary of the Paris agreement looms, self-proclaimed “climate realists” argue that the targets set a decade ago are unachievable. Reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 is “utterly impla

THIS SPRING, AS GLOBAL MARKETS GYRATED, SOME OF THE world’s most influential investors and executives sat in a Scottsdale, Ariz., conference room engaged in deep discussion. But rather than President

How will future generations look back on us? This is the question novelist Ian McEwan explores in his new novel What We Can Know. Partly set in an imagined future, a combination of climate change and

In October 2023, Brechin, a Scottish town near the North Sea, was hit by a wall of water that changed it forever. During Storm Babet, a record 150 to 200mm of rain fell in parts of the area. The resul

Ian McEwan is strolling through the garden of his Cotswolds manor house. Bees waft drowsily between wildflowers. Plump apples, pears and walnuts bauble the trees. Vibrant cerulean-blue damselflies hov

“Less Holocaust, more Anne Frank,” was the advice Michael Grunwald received from the CEO of a publishing house who opted not to bid for his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth. Grunwald took notice.