Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas is a climate change writer and activist, author of the acclaimed book 'High Tide' and fortnightly columnist for the New Statesman. He was selected by National Geographic as an 'Emerging Explorer' for 2006, and blogs on www.marklynas.org

Articles by Mark Lynas

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Bali to Copenhagen

  • 03 January 2008
  • 13 comments

Bali convinced me that agreeing a new phase of Kyoto is by far the most important objective for climate-change stabilisation

Mark Lynas's Green Grid

  • 13 December 2007
  • 17 comments

Should the incremental approach of Kyoto be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Read the arguments for and against and vote in our climate choice poll

The price of a living forest

  • 22 November 2007
  • 9 comments

The blunt economic truth is clear: deforestation can never be stopped as long as trees are worth more dead than alive

How to stop climate change: the easy way

  • 08 November 2007
  • 34 comments

Changing your light bulbs may not be enough to save a single polar bear, but there are things we can do collectively - and easily - that will really make a measurable difference in the battle against global warming. Mark Lynas has a three-part plan. Illustration by James Fryer

An environmental utopia - up to a point

  • 11 October 2007
  • 7 comments

We downtrodden Brits often look enviously at Scandinavian countries as models of genteel social democracy...

Back to the future

  • 27 September 2007
  • 2 comments

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman Virgin Books, 336pp, £20

Green papers, white lies, hot air

  • 20 September 2007
  • 9 comments

Britain's policy on global warming remains mired in confusion, with too much debate and too little action. But there is a solution ...

Neutrality is cowardice

  • 30 August 2007
  • 12 comments

Journalists who provide a platform for climate change sceptics should summon up the courage needed to help defend the planet

The most important protest of our time

  • 16 August 2007
  • 41 comments

Aviation is the incendiary issue in environmental politics today. The campaigners at Heathrow are just the vanguard of a powerful new people's movement.

What’s really going on here

  • 26 July 2007
  • 18 comments

This is not "a poor summer". Britain has been experiencing its worst ever climate change event. We must recognise this and our own responsibility for the emerging crisis.

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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