Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas has is an environmental activist and a climate change specialist. His books on the subject include High Tide: News from a warming world and Six Degree: Our future on a hotter planet.

Articles by Mark Lynas

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Why Britain doesn't need nuclear power

  • 17 January 2008
  • 17 comments

It is shameful the UK languishes at the bottom of the renewable energy league despite our huge resources

Has global warming really stopped?

  • 14 January 2008
  • 1717 comments

Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped

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

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

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Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

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