Environment What we lost: writers on the climate crisis As the planet heats, our natural world is rapidly changing. Seven leading names recall a loss in their lifetime. By Ai Weiwei, Thomas Keneally, Richard Flanagan, Ahdaf Soueif, Orhan Pamuk, Annie Proulx and Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley on climate loss: At bedtime, I realise there aren’t as many insects in the night-time invasion In autumn now, brushing through bleached long grass, isn’t the raised cloud of dust-coloured living things sadly diminished? By Tessa Hadley