Paul Brown was the Guardian’s environment correspondent from 1989 until 2005 and has written many columns since. He submitted his last column last week after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. From his hospital bed in Luton, Paul offers his reflections on 45 years writing for the Guardian. We, in the climate business, all owe...

Virginia Burkett faced the most egregious instance of political interference in her scientific career seven years ago, she said, when political appointees during President Donald Trump’s first term tried to alter the country’s pre-eminent climate change report. As a top scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Burkett had already served as lead author on the...

Virginia Burkett faced the most egregious instance of political interference in her scientific career seven years ago, she said, when political appointees during President Donald Trump’s first term tried to alter the country’s pre-eminent climate change report. As a top scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Burkett had already served as lead author on the...