Jonathan Watts
@jonathan-watts.bsky.social
Author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock, founder of Sumaúma.com and the Rainforest Journalism Fund. Guardian environment writer.
Amid all the doom and gloom over negotiations at Cop30, one man was doing his damndest to dance away the blues. Rex Manjuria from Nigeria said his goal was to shift climate awareness through music and drama. “We need to use art to drive action,” he said.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Amid all the doom and gloom over negotiations at Cop30, one man was doing his damndest to dance away the blues. Rex Manjuria from Nigeria said his goal was to shift climate awareness through music and drama. “We need to use art to drive action,” he said.
Whether Murdoch or Musk, beware billionaires encouraging hate.
September 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Whether Murdoch or Musk, beware billionaires encouraging hate.
Anyone who knows me will know why
August 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Anyone who knows me will know why
Incredible one-day-only discount on How to Save the Amazon (kindle version). £1.99!
July 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Incredible one-day-only discount on How to Save the Amazon (kindle version). £1.99!
US friends! Next leg of the Dom Book Tour will be in the United States where Alessandra Sampaio and Andrew Fishman will be spreading the word and talking to Stephanie Nolen, Vinod Sreeharsha and (possibly) Jon Lee Anderson. Details in image of events in NYC, DC and Miami.
June 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
US friends! Next leg of the Dom Book Tour will be in the United States where Alessandra Sampaio and Andrew Fishman will be spreading the word and talking to Stephanie Nolen, Vinod Sreeharsha and (possibly) Jon Lee Anderson. Details in image of events in NYC, DC and Miami.
And huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the crowdfunding campaign, memorial events, talks and exhibition, especially Dominique Davies, Rhiannon Davies, Paul Sherwood, Clare Hanford, Fiona Frank, Alison Cahn, Ali Rocha and Vinod Sreeharsha. We couldn’t have finished Dom’s book without you. 🙏🏻
June 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
And huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the crowdfunding campaign, memorial events, talks and exhibition, especially Dominique Davies, Rhiannon Davies, Paul Sherwood, Clare Hanford, Fiona Frank, Alison Cahn, Ali Rocha and Vinod Sreeharsha. We couldn’t have finished Dom’s book without you. 🙏🏻
Publishers:
Sarah Braybrooke, Hope Ndaba, Leonie Lock at Ithaca
Sean Maher at Chelsea Green
Camila Berto at Campanha das Letras
Sarah Braybrooke, Hope Ndaba, Leonie Lock at Ithaca
Sean Maher at Chelsea Green
Camila Berto at Campanha das Letras
June 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Publishers:
Sarah Braybrooke, Hope Ndaba, Leonie Lock at Ithaca
Sean Maher at Chelsea Green
Camila Berto at Campanha das Letras
Sarah Braybrooke, Hope Ndaba, Leonie Lock at Ithaca
Sean Maher at Chelsea Green
Camila Berto at Campanha das Letras
More editorial support:
Wyre Davies,
Thomas Fischermann,
Fabiano Maisonnave,
David Biller
Photographs
Gary Carlton,
João Laet
Nicoló Lanfranchi
Fabio Erdos
Lianne Milton
Translation:
Julia Sanches
Diane Whitty
Fact checkers:
Plinio Pereira Lopes,
Gustavo Queiroz
Douglas Maia.
Wyre Davies,
Thomas Fischermann,
Fabiano Maisonnave,
David Biller
Photographs
Gary Carlton,
João Laet
Nicoló Lanfranchi
Fabio Erdos
Lianne Milton
Translation:
Julia Sanches
Diane Whitty
Fact checkers:
Plinio Pereira Lopes,
Gustavo Queiroz
Douglas Maia.
June 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
More editorial support:
Wyre Davies,
Thomas Fischermann,
Fabiano Maisonnave,
David Biller
Photographs
Gary Carlton,
João Laet
Nicoló Lanfranchi
Fabio Erdos
Lianne Milton
Translation:
Julia Sanches
Diane Whitty
Fact checkers:
Plinio Pereira Lopes,
Gustavo Queiroz
Douglas Maia.
Wyre Davies,
Thomas Fischermann,
Fabiano Maisonnave,
David Biller
Photographs
Gary Carlton,
João Laet
Nicoló Lanfranchi
Fabio Erdos
Lianne Milton
Translation:
Julia Sanches
Diane Whitty
Fact checkers:
Plinio Pereira Lopes,
Gustavo Queiroz
Douglas Maia.
Editorial group:
Andrew Fishman,
Rebecca Carter,
Tom Hennigan,
David Davies,
Me
Chapter contributors:
Jon Lee Anderson,
Eliane Brum,
Tom Phillips,
Beto Marubo,
Helena Palmquist,
Stuart Grudgings,
Andrew Fishman
Me
Andrew Fishman,
Rebecca Carter,
Tom Hennigan,
David Davies,
Me
Chapter contributors:
Jon Lee Anderson,
Eliane Brum,
Tom Phillips,
Beto Marubo,
Helena Palmquist,
Stuart Grudgings,
Andrew Fishman
Me
June 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Editorial group:
Andrew Fishman,
Rebecca Carter,
Tom Hennigan,
David Davies,
Me
Chapter contributors:
Jon Lee Anderson,
Eliane Brum,
Tom Phillips,
Beto Marubo,
Helena Palmquist,
Stuart Grudgings,
Andrew Fishman
Me
Andrew Fishman,
Rebecca Carter,
Tom Hennigan,
David Davies,
Me
Chapter contributors:
Jon Lee Anderson,
Eliane Brum,
Tom Phillips,
Beto Marubo,
Helena Palmquist,
Stuart Grudgings,
Andrew Fishman
Me
Hundreds of people helped to complete Dom’s work. It wasn’t just a book project, it was a movement, an outpouring of love and an expression of defiance.
Thanks to everyone involved, especially Alessandra Sampaio, Sian Phillips and Gareth Phillips for trusting me to lead this task.
Thanks to everyone involved, especially Alessandra Sampaio, Sian Phillips and Gareth Phillips for trusting me to lead this task.
June 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Hundreds of people helped to complete Dom’s work. It wasn’t just a book project, it was a movement, an outpouring of love and an expression of defiance.
Thanks to everyone involved, especially Alessandra Sampaio, Sian Phillips and Gareth Phillips for trusting me to lead this task.
Thanks to everyone involved, especially Alessandra Sampaio, Sian Phillips and Gareth Phillips for trusting me to lead this task.
An extraordinarily poignant week, launching Dom Phillips’ book, “How to Save the Amazon.”
I have never felt solidarity as strongly as at the packed-out events at Hay, Lancaster and London. Sadness was divided and joy multiplied by sharing this moment with his friends and family.
I have never felt solidarity as strongly as at the packed-out events at Hay, Lancaster and London. Sadness was divided and joy multiplied by sharing this moment with his friends and family.
June 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An extraordinarily poignant week, launching Dom Phillips’ book, “How to Save the Amazon.”
I have never felt solidarity as strongly as at the packed-out events at Hay, Lancaster and London. Sadness was divided and joy multiplied by sharing this moment with his friends and family.
I have never felt solidarity as strongly as at the packed-out events at Hay, Lancaster and London. Sadness was divided and joy multiplied by sharing this moment with his friends and family.
Chilling taste of the rising threat to media freedom in the United States. A cartoon critical of tech billionaires for kowtowing to Donald Trump has been spiked by the Washington Post, which is owned by tech billionaire Jeff Bezos.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
January 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Chilling taste of the rising threat to media freedom in the United States. A cartoon critical of tech billionaires for kowtowing to Donald Trump has been spiked by the Washington Post, which is owned by tech billionaire Jeff Bezos.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Best wishes for 2025, with a montage of sights and sounds from our Amazon rainforest home over the past year.
Crank up the volume to hear the howler monkeys at night.
Crank up the volume to hear the howler monkeys at night.
January 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Best wishes for 2025, with a montage of sights and sounds from our Amazon rainforest home over the past year.
Crank up the volume to hear the howler monkeys at night.
Crank up the volume to hear the howler monkeys at night.
Wow! Help! Vote! Incredibly proud of Eliane Brum who has been selected by Prospect as one of the 25 Top Thinkers for an Uncertain World. This is a shortlist and voting is now open for the top Top Thinker so please sign up below to cast your ballot.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
December 4, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Wow! Help! Vote! Incredibly proud of Eliane Brum who has been selected by Prospect as one of the 25 Top Thinkers for an Uncertain World. This is a shortlist and voting is now open for the top Top Thinker so please sign up below to cast your ballot.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
BlueSky just passed 20 million users.
November 19, 2024 at 1:54 PM
BlueSky just passed 20 million users.
Now at more-than-a-million-a-day pace.
November 17, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Now at more-than-a-million-a-day pace.
Stunningly beautiful and impressively comprehensive new exhibition of Amazonian art, culture and environment has just opened at the CCCB in Barcelona.
The best I’ve seen.
www.cccb.org/es/exposicio...
The best I’ve seen.
www.cccb.org/es/exposicio...
November 14, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Stunningly beautiful and impressively comprehensive new exhibition of Amazonian art, culture and environment has just opened at the CCCB in Barcelona.
The best I’ve seen.
www.cccb.org/es/exposicio...
The best I’ve seen.
www.cccb.org/es/exposicio...
The horrifying desiccation of the Amazon
Infographic by @Sumaumajournal shows river levels at record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, as the vast rainforest basin slips toward a point of no return
sumauma.com/en/infografi...
Infographic by @Sumaumajournal shows river levels at record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, as the vast rainforest basin slips toward a point of no return
sumauma.com/en/infografi...
November 5, 2024 at 8:57 AM
The horrifying desiccation of the Amazon
Infographic by @Sumaumajournal shows river levels at record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, as the vast rainforest basin slips toward a point of no return
sumauma.com/en/infografi...
Infographic by @Sumaumajournal shows river levels at record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, as the vast rainforest basin slips toward a point of no return
sumauma.com/en/infografi...
Three days of mourning declared in Spain after flash floods kill dozens.
Climate breakdown now part of our lives and its catastrophes will get worse every year until we stop burning trees, oil, gas and coal.
amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Climate breakdown now part of our lives and its catastrophes will get worse every year until we stop burning trees, oil, gas and coal.
amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
October 30, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Three days of mourning declared in Spain after flash floods kill dozens.
Climate breakdown now part of our lives and its catastrophes will get worse every year until we stop burning trees, oil, gas and coal.
amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Climate breakdown now part of our lives and its catastrophes will get worse every year until we stop burning trees, oil, gas and coal.
amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Beautifully evocative story by Indigenous journalist Wajã Xipai on the alarming changes to the river Iriri, which his community depends on in the Amazon rainforest.
Wajã is among the first to complete Sumaúma’s co-formation programme, Micelio, with forest storytellers.
sumauma.com/en/o-rio-da-...
Wajã is among the first to complete Sumaúma’s co-formation programme, Micelio, with forest storytellers.
sumauma.com/en/o-rio-da-...
October 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Beautifully evocative story by Indigenous journalist Wajã Xipai on the alarming changes to the river Iriri, which his community depends on in the Amazon rainforest.
Wajã is among the first to complete Sumaúma’s co-formation programme, Micelio, with forest storytellers.
sumauma.com/en/o-rio-da-...
Wajã is among the first to complete Sumaúma’s co-formation programme, Micelio, with forest storytellers.
sumauma.com/en/o-rio-da-...
The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating impacts, according to an open letter by 44 experts. One of the signatories, @rahmstorf tells me why.
amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 23, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating impacts, according to an open letter by 44 experts. One of the signatories, @rahmstorf tells me why.
amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity stripes reflect the grim news that humans have killed off 73% of wildlife populations since 1970.
“The decline of nature provides a sure sign that our relationship with nature is failing,” said originator of biodiversity stripes Miles Richardson.
findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/v...
“The decline of nature provides a sure sign that our relationship with nature is failing,” said originator of biodiversity stripes Miles Richardson.
findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/v...
October 10, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Biodiversity stripes reflect the grim news that humans have killed off 73% of wildlife populations since 1970.
“The decline of nature provides a sure sign that our relationship with nature is failing,” said originator of biodiversity stripes Miles Richardson.
findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/v...
“The decline of nature provides a sure sign that our relationship with nature is failing,” said originator of biodiversity stripes Miles Richardson.
findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/v...
Dom Phillips’ book: “How to Save the Amazon” has a cover and will be published in May, 2025.
The murders of Dom and Bruno Pereira are not the end of their story. The voices they wanted to amplify will not be silenced. Our friend’s work goes on.
The murders of Dom and Bruno Pereira are not the end of their story. The voices they wanted to amplify will not be silenced. Our friend’s work goes on.
October 9, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Dom Phillips’ book: “How to Save the Amazon” has a cover and will be published in May, 2025.
The murders of Dom and Bruno Pereira are not the end of their story. The voices they wanted to amplify will not be silenced. Our friend’s work goes on.
The murders of Dom and Bruno Pereira are not the end of their story. The voices they wanted to amplify will not be silenced. Our friend’s work goes on.
Thanks David. There would be no Gaia Theory without the electron capture detector.
Highly recommend these further readings, particularly by Morris.
Highly recommend these further readings, particularly by Morris.
October 7, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Thanks David. There would be no Gaia Theory without the electron capture detector.
Highly recommend these further readings, particularly by Morris.
Highly recommend these further readings, particularly by Morris.
Want to know how Brazil’s elections will impact the Amazon ? Check out these excellent stories in Sumaúma.
Far-right vies for power in ‘agro-suicide’ centre of Sinop
The burning passion of politicians and agribusiness
The dilemma of the left in a collapsing world…
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sumauma.com/en/
Far-right vies for power in ‘agro-suicide’ centre of Sinop
The burning passion of politicians and agribusiness
The dilemma of the left in a collapsing world…
1/2
sumauma.com/en/
October 5, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Want to know how Brazil’s elections will impact the Amazon ? Check out these excellent stories in Sumaúma.
Far-right vies for power in ‘agro-suicide’ centre of Sinop
The burning passion of politicians and agribusiness
The dilemma of the left in a collapsing world…
1/2
sumauma.com/en/
Far-right vies for power in ‘agro-suicide’ centre of Sinop
The burning passion of politicians and agribusiness
The dilemma of the left in a collapsing world…
1/2
sumauma.com/en/