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Tim Smedley

England

Journalist, Book Author and Copywriter at Freelance

Freelance Features Writer at The Times

Environmental Writer at BBC

Environmental writer (BBC, FT, Guardian, etc) & book author. Find me here now: @timsmedley.bsky.social #ClearingTheAir: https://t.co/PSFmRXx03t #TheLastDrop: https://t.co/JNCn1xc55B

Articles

  • 1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tim Smedley

    When I was first asked to write this column, among the editor’s requests were that I serve as “a guide through the climate crisis”. To do so, I tend to look for solutions, be they nature-based or policy, seek out experts or dig through scientific reports. But sometimes you only need to look out the window to understand what is happening. The wettest 18-month period in England since Met Office records began in 1836 was from October 2022 to March 2024, with 1,695.9mm of rain.

  • 3 weeks ago | medium.com | Tim Smedley

    I took part in a wildflower charity’s ‘No Mow May’ campaign, and discovered a surprising bounty of benefits. I’ve always liked mowing the lawn. Perhaps it’s a childhood nostalgia thing, having watched my dad do it seemingly every weekend in summer. The smell, the neat intermittent stripes, the angry roar as the mower lifted for each turn.

  • 3 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tim Smedley

    I write this with my T-shirt still sodden with rain. After the driest spring in 69 years, the water butts in my garden ran dry in May. Normally, that happens in July or August or not at all. Desperate for rain, then, I was eagerly anticipating this week’s thunderstorms. Thunderstorms in May. Normally they happen in July, or… you get the picture.

  • 1 month ago | medium.com | Tim Smedley

    The only publication for climate action, covering the environment, biodiversity, net zero, renewable energy and regenerative approaches. It’s time for The New Climate. Follow publicationAsk not what you can do for your country…Nationalism is a problem. And I don’t just mean the rampant fascist dictatorial kind. I mean all flag-waving exceptionalism and (exclusive) patriotism, borders and all. Some say that we have a migrant crisis.

  • 1 month ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tim Smedley

    “To keep this moor viable we have to raise 6,000 grouse a season, which we do by killing everything else that moves,” says Viscount Deveroux, the alter-ego of comedian Henry Morris. Walking a moor, dressed in tweed and with 12-gauge shotgun in hand, he continues: “Do you know there are people who say that driven grouse shooting is a screamingly elitist anachronism whose main proponents own the majority of our countryside yet have absolutely no interest in our shared natural history?

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