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Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is an author, journalist and broadcaster. Her latest book is Nomad Century

June 2024

  • Demonstrators protest against Nigel Farage and Reform UK in Clacton-on-Sea on June 4.

    Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration: it’s here for good

    Gaia Vince
    It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done, says author Gaia Vince

February 2024

  • Gordon Pointe, Florida. World's most expensive property

    Notebook
    Climate-crisis deniers sought for exclusive Florida residence. Private ark essential

    Gaia Vince
    Gordon Pointe is going for a snip at $295m – but set in a location particularly vulnerable to sea-level rises, buyers should beware

October 2023

  • Illustration of heat forcing people to migrate

    A hotter world forcing people on the move needs vision, not Suella Braverman’s rabble-rousing words

    Gaia Vince
    The home secretary’s ‘hurricane’ warning is out of step with public opinion. A global solution is vital

August 2023

  • OPINION ILLO 18.8.23 Eleanor Shakespeare-WEB-version2 migration

    We need to work out a way forward on rising migration – the alternative is mass drownings

    Gaia Vince
    What the UK needs is pragmatic, joined-up policymaking. But what we get instead are culture wars, says author and journalist Gaia Vince

July 2023

  • Forest fires in La Palma<br>TIJAREFE, SPAIN - JULY 16: Operators of the EIRIF, BRIFOR and UME, work in the extinguishing of the forest fire declared on July 15 in the early morning. La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain on July 16, 2023. The fire has burned to date more than 4,600 hectares of Monte, and has forced some 4,200 people from the Tijarafe and Puntagorda area to evict. (Photo by Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Consider the heatwave and floods: can we still save the planet for our children? I think we can

    Gaia Vince
  • Rishi Sunak holds up a green briefcase similar to the red budget box with COP21 printed on it.

    Missed all our net zero targets? No sweat. Rishi Sunak is 100% on it

    Gaia Vince

April 2023

  • 3O0A9525 - rewilded part of farm with horses First lynx to arrive on a UK rewilding project: Derek Gow's farm in Upcott Grange, Devon, UK.

    Does climate breakdown mean we’re doomed? No: if we’re brave, big change can happen fast

    Gaia Vince
    The climate crisis can seem overwhelming, but there are radical, pragmatic solutions – and they begin with an idea, says author Gaia Vince

October 2022

  • Greta Thunberg at as student strike in Milan, 2021.

    The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg review – global warning

    A powerful but uneven clarion call on climate from the environmental activist

August 2022

  • A woman takes their cattle to safe places as flood water increases in the coastal area in Khulna, Bangladesh on August 15, 2022. Due to climate change, again rising tides collapsing the embankments of coastal areas of Bangladesh, flooded and saltwater entering the locality damaging crops, and fish and hampered livelihood. (Photo by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval – podcast

  • Migrants walking

    The long read
    The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval

June 2022

  • Grazing cows on the path at the top of the Downs. Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, UK. 5th January 2022.

    Regenesis by George Monbiot review – hungry for real change

    The environmental activist’s proposals for remaking the global food industry, from changes in farming practices to 3D-printed steaks, make for urgent, essential reading

November 2021

  • OPINION WEB illustration for Gaia Vince/Cop26

    To avert climate disaster, we need resilient societies built on love, not just technology

    Gaia Vince
    Love is a human survival adaptation, and it is the scaffolding for the new social networks on which we will depend, says science journalist Gaia Vince

August 2021

  • 1998, THE TRUMAN SHOW<br>JIM CARREY Character(s): Truman Burbank Film ‘THE TRUMAN SHOW’ (1998) Directed By PETER WEIR 05 June 1998 CTG22233 Allstar/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of PARAMOUNT and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To PARAMOUNT is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Book of the day
    Being You by Professor Anil Seth review – the exhilarating new science of consciousness

    Our world and the self are constructions of the brain, a pioneering neuroscientist argues

April 2021

  • Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in Iceland at sunset.

    Our disappearing glaciers
    What we lose when we lose our glaciers

    To enter a world of ice and rock is to witness the sublime, a sensory paradox of perspective-shifting unreality

December 2020

  • Illustration by Nathalie Lees.

    Following the science: the writers who have made sense of Covid

    When R numbers have been daily news, and medical officers have shared platforms with politicians, Gaia Vince reflects on a challenging and exhilarating year of being a science writer

October 2020

  • A coral reef in the Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

    Why there is hope that the world's coral reefs can be saved

    Scientists are using novel methods to save a vital part of our ecosystem

May 2020

  • A worker paints signs for a new cycle path in central Milan.

    After the Covid-19 crisis, will we get a greener world?

    Pollution and emissions are down, but we will squander these gains if governments fail to push ahead with decisive change

April 2020

  • Sharon Moalem

    Book of the week
    The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women review – bold study of chromosomal advantage

    Sharon Moalem offers an intriguing theory on how two X chromosomes give women the edge in everything from colour vision to coronavirus

January 2020

  • Polar bears foraging in a rubbish dump near the village of Belushya Guba, Novaya Zemlya

    How scientists are coping with ‘ecological grief’

    Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens

November 2019

  • For Saturday Review 2 Nov 2019

    Smashing the patriarchy: why there's nothing natural about male supremacy

    Psychologists such as Jordan Peterson argue patriarchal society is the ‘natural order’, but it is a relatively new development, writes Gaia Vince
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