Really happy to have this story in the first issue of the new @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social, a magazine stuffed full of excellent things. Read it online or in print

The Barrister Fighting to Give English Rivers Legal Rights | Now Voyager Paul Powlesland, River Roding, UK, rights of nature, citizen scientists, legal rights rivers and trees, eco-activism.

How does someone speak for nature? How does one earn the right to do so?

My latest story—for new magazine @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social—is about a British lawyer, a polluted London river, and the global rights-of-nature movement

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The English countryside is paying the price for net zero As plans for Sizewell C power station moves forward, those who live nearby must deal with the environmental fallout of 22,000 lost trees

What will be required of us to reach net zero?

My new @telegraphnews.bsky.social Magazine story is about environmental change, Sizewell C, and the emotional cost of confronting the climate crisis, with photographs by Richard Allenby-Pratt

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient knowledge and modern innovation protect these unique ecosystems?

In Morocco, climate change threatens the millennia-long culture and ecology of desert oases, but old ways and ancient knowledge offer a different future. My new story for National Geographic Magazine, with photographs by M'hammed Kilito: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea | Hakai Magazine New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.

The North Sea is a hard place to love, but what lies beneath is fascinating. My new story for @hakaimagazine.com is about prehistory, lost lands, climate change, and rising seas: a story of our past and our future hakaimagazine.com/features/con...