Mark Lynas is an author, speaker, podcaster and campaigner. His latest book is Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It, published 8 May 2025. He also acts as science advisor with the 74-country Climate Vulnerable Forum, and is Head of Policy with the pro-science environmental campaign network WePlanet.

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June 05, 2025

Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever

International waters, also known as the high seas, make up 61% of the ocean and cover 43% of Earth’s surface — amounting to two-thirds of the biosphere by volume. They have […]
June 03, 2025

Hope and memory in Hiroshima: A journey from Mount Fuji to global zero

This is actually the epilogue from my book, extracted in Geographical magazine. A trip to Hiroshima past Mount Fuji, some karaoke and oysters, memories of 6 August 1945, and a […]
May 22, 2025

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war – NewScientist

The good news is that we might be about to solve the Fermi paradox. Many have long suspected that the reason why there don’t seem to be millions of talkative […]

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