Proud of my very smart sister @drjmcconnell who has (another) new book out, this time on poet and playwright Derek Walcott, and the ancient Classics in his modern writing #PublicationDay

How does a magazine "meet our audiences where they are" when there's no one left? washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/…

One of the funniest articles I've read in ages, though I fear it's actually serious, which only makes it funnier of course unherd.com/2023/07/the-da…

In this week’s essay from Volume 4, writer Tristan McConnell ventures across Turkana in northwest Kenya, and witnesses how movement has shaped and been shaped by the landscape for millennia. Read “A Whale in the Desert,” with photos by Sarah Waiswa. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-whale-…

“The story of Turkana and the story of us are entangled…It is a tale of relentless movement, adaptation, and migration, of a shifting landscape, changing climate, and restless populations.” “A Whale in the Desert,” by Tristan McConnell. Photos by Sarah Waiswa. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-whale-…

"All of this infrastructure is designed for a climate that no longer exists." This story by Christopher Cox is about dams, rain, and flooding in California, but its message applies to much else that we rely on everywhere nytimes.com/2023/06/22/mag…

"We exist in the corridors between big estates": illuminating (if depressing) quote in this excellent Brooke Jarvis piece on the British countryside, inequality, access, and the need to know a place in order to care for it nytimes.com/2023/07/26/mag…

In a world rapidly spiraling into climate turmoil, will we reorient to welcome migration not only as a right, but a necessary human adaptation? Listen to this week’s podcast, “A Whale in the Desert” by Tristan McConnell. emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Sarah Waiswa.

“…It is a tale of relentless movement, adaptation, and migration, of a shifting landscape, changing climate, and restless populations.” Listen to “A Whale in the Desert,” by Tristan McConnell. buff.ly/2Ur2kGq

How not to save the planet, by Heidi Blake for The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Not surprised a new species of toad was discovered in Mount Kenya's forests (nhm.ac.uk/press-office/p…): it's a magical place, as I discovered reporting this 2020 Emergence Magazine story emergencemagazine.org/essay/illumina…

I was fortunate to work on this groundbreaking project from the ICRC, an immersive exploration of the human cost of urban conflict in Mosul, Aleppo, and Gaza broken-cities.icrc.org

"It ain't Vail, put it that way": carving the Cairngorms, by Patagonia eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/stories/…

The last two northern white rhinos are among the most photographed animals on Earth, but Magnum Photos' Paolo Pellegrin captures them anew, for Emergence Magazine emergencemagazine.org/gallery/najin-…

How not to do conservation: powerful, moving piece by Stephanie McCrummen in Tanzania, for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

My new story is about landscape, climate change, and the submerged prehistoric territory of #Doggerland, beneath the North Sea. For Hakai Magazine hakaimagazine.com/features/conju…

This is a story about prehistory and lost lands, climate change and rising seas, a story of our past and our future. My latest on #Doggerland, archaeology, and the #Anthropocene, for Hakai Magazine hakaimagazine.com/features/conju…

The North Sea is a hard place to love, but what lies beneath is fascinating: my story on Doggerland, archaeology, and climate change, for Hakai Magazine hakaimagazine.com/features/conju…

In Morocco, climate change threatens the millennia-long culture and ecology of desert oases, but old ways and ancient knowledge offer a different future. My new National Geographic story, with beautiful photography by M'hammed Kilito nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

What will be required of us to reach net zero? My new The Telegraph Magazine story is about environmental change, Sizewell C, and the emotional cost of confronting the climate crisis, with photographs by Richard Allenby-Pratt telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…