Journal
Reports, analyses and features from all 195 countries - the journalism behind the journeys.
The Smallest Part of the Problem
A hotel guest uses far more water than a resident, and almost none of it in the shower. Where it actually goes, why the tourist peak lands in the dry season by construction, and the aquifer damage that cannot be undone.
A Shade and a Switch
Most people in Europe and North America cannot see the Milky Way from home. Light pollution is one of the few major environmental problems that stop the moment you stop causing them — which is why the dark-sky network works and why LED made it worse first.
Ask What Happens When It Grows Up
Sanctuary, rescue and refuge are unregulated words in almost every jurisdiction. A test that does not rely on the name — plus the harder cases, where a simple boycott has made welfare worse rather than better.
What It Would Do If We Stopped Telling It
Rewilding proposes restoring the processes rather than maintaining the picture. It has produced some of the most interesting places in Europe to visit and some of the sharpest rural politics on the continent — and the politics are the real problem.
A Claim About a World That Did Not Happen
Twenty years of evidence has been unkind to the checkbox at the end of a booking. The mechanism is not fraudulent in general; the specific product sold to air passengers has failed on its own terms often enough to stop calling a flight neutral.