Writing
During my time at the New Statesman, I covered everything from climate news and analysis to book reviews and features on the state of the natural world. This environmental focus is now echoed in my freelance writing, via articles at BBC Future / Future Planet, The Ecologist, Climate Home, DeSmog and Prospect.
I’ve also appeared on and chaired numerous panels, from Labour Party Conference to the Young Fabians, and reported from the 2017 international climate conference in Bonn. You can find the full list of my Newstatesman stories on their website. Selected examples from there (and elsewhere) below:
Features
The Canary Islands will soon host the world’s first industrial octopus farm. But there is no humane way to slaughter these intelligent, sentient creatures.
See also: War on cars, Bird-flu, Sewage, Labour’s £28 billion
Interviews
The author of The Overstory and Bewilderment explains why our best hope is to reconnect with nature.
See all: Guy Shrubsole, Isabella Tree, Caroline Lucas, Feargal Sharkey, Elizabeth Wathuti, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Okri, Alex Honnold, David Wallace Wells
Book reviews
Mark Cocker’s ode to a remarkable species makes a powerful case for the value of awe in a time of ecological grief.
See also: Doreen Cunningham’s Soundings, Rachel Nuwer’s Poached, Richard Powers’ The Overstory, Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves, Rachel Reeves’ Alice in Westminster
Science writing
Extreme wildfires are increasing due to rising emissions, but they also disrupt the climate in return. Determining their exact impact on the atmosphere, however, is tricker than it seems.
See also: Hurricanes and the ‘other’ El Nino, Crispr and climate change, Google Earth’s climate problem,
Nature writing
A family of London swans offer both warning and hope in the face of an overlooked crisis.
See also: Up with the nightingales, Memory, climate change and the changing coast
Opinion
Safe protest stunts raise the profile of the climate crisis and ask us to think about the bigger picture.
See also: Greta Thunberg’s arrest, Wild Camping, Sheepwrecked: the lake district debate
Film & TV reviews
This extra, iPlayer-only follow-up to the popular BBC series, was far more explicit about our ecological emergency and what must be done to stop it.
See also: Jane Goodall, The islands and the whales, Planet Earth II
Profiles
The imperial overreach of the Tesla boss. (Picture credit: Ellie Foreman-Peck)
See also: Paul Crutzen, Greta Thunberg, Chris Packham
Energy reporting
Whatever its future in England, fracking has already left a troubled legacy and created a new type of activist.
See Also: Carbon Capture in Norway, Swansea’s Tidal experiment, Merthyr Tydfil’s miners against coal, The Native American tribe resisting Keystone