John Vidal
John Vidal is the Guardian's environment editor. He is the author of McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial
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'We need development': Maldives switches focus from climate threat to mass tourismThe new government plans to relocate residents to larger atolls – leaving small islands ripe for development. It says these super resorts, not solar power, will create the money needed to adapt to climate change
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'We are rewriting the textbooks': first dives to Amazon coral reef stun scientistsScientists have discovered the river reef is far bigger, and more important, than first thought – a biodiversity hotspot on a par with the Great Barrier Reef. Now they face a race to protect it from big oil
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Amazon rainforest's final frontier under threat from oil and soyaIn Brazil’s least developed state, Amapá, locals fear that government plans to increase soya and oil production will destroy the area – and their livelihoods
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We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 yearsAt current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
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Zika, drought, conflict: what 2016 meant for the world's poorest – podcast transcriptThe Global development team looks back at some of the issues that affected millions of people in developing countries in the past year, and considers the challenges for 2017
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What will be the big environment events in 2017?From air pollution to Trump and wildlife extinction, we look at the major environmental issues for the year ahead
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Teargas, trees and oil: my life in the greatest job on earthIn 27 years as environment editor at the Guardian, I have seen both devastation and progress. Now I’m retiring – but I still have hope for the future of the planet
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Zika, drought, conflict: what 2016 meant for the world's poorest – podcastThe Global development team looks back at some of the issues that affected millions of people in developing countries over the past year, and considers the challenges for 2017
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The seven deadly things we’re doing to trash the planet (and human life with it)We weep at the disappearance of endangered species but avert our eyes to the causes of Earth’s destruction
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Love, death and rewilding – how two clothing tycoons saved PatagoniaAlongside her husband, Doug, Kris McDivitt Tompkins bought up vast swathes of Patagonia to save it from developers. Now, a year after Doug’s sudden death, she explains how their shared vision is close to reality
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Southern Africa cries for help as El Niño and climate change savage maize harvestOnly half of $600m promised in aid has come
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Clouds of filth envelop Asian cities: 'you can't escape'This year has seen some of Asia’s worst urban smog episodes in nearly 20 years, as India’s air pollution soars above levels recorded in China
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'Extraordinarily hot' Arctic temperatures alarm scientistsDanish and US researchers say warmer air and sea surface could lead to record lows of sea ice at north pole next year
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Oil drilling underway beneath Ecuador's Yasuní national parkGovernment claims oil extraction is causing minimal disturbance to the Unesco biosphere reserve in the Amazon
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Ken Wiwa obituaryJournalist, author and environmental campaigner who served as an adviser to three Nigerian presidents
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'Beauty and horror' in the industrially scarred landscapes of south WalesJohn Vidal takes to the skies with US photographer J Henry Fair on an aerial toxic tour of south Wales
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Nigerian president leads tributes to oil activist Ken WiwaThe Ogoni leader and son of renowned Niger delta environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa has died from a stroke in London, aged 47
Congested, polluted and with car jobs at risk, Stuttgart reaches a crossroads