Commissioning Editor
Jack joined The Conversation in 2018 after internships at Mongabay and The Press Association. He has a research background in marine biology and began his media career at university, where he reported on a fossil fuel divestment campaign for his campus paper. Jack covers energy and environment and is interested in climate change, biodiversity and political ecology. He is based in Newcastle.
A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050
May 09, 2024 07:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping blanket of gases in Earths atmosphere, the weather will become more...
The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A reckless experiment in Earths atmosphere caused a desert metropolis to flood. That was the story last week when more than a years worth of rain fell in a day on the Arabian Peninsula, one of the worlds driest regions....
Climate change is warping the seasons
Mar 07, 2024 09:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The seasons arent what they used to be. People who live in Earths middle latitudes are accustomed to a spring, summer, autumn and winter. If youre in the northern hemisphere, you may have noticed plants flowering...
Net zero goal still alive, says IEA – but the world still faces major obstacles to reach it
Sep 29, 2023 09:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
This roundup of stories is adapted from our weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine, written by environment editor Jack Marley. Click here to subscribe. Globally, the rate at which people are installing solar panels...
Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels?
Mar 27, 2022 14:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Four weeks have passed since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. To impede the onslaught of Vladimir Putins war machine, countries in the EU and elsewhere have announced measures to cut imports of fuel and energy from Russia,...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects