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Catherine Early is a freelance journalist and editor who has specialised in environmental issues for more than 15 years. She writes about topics including climate change, energy, waste, biodiversity, air pollution, the built environment, business strategy, sustainable investment, and policy and regulation.
She has held permanent roles at the Environmentalist (now known as Transform), the ENDS Report, Planning magazine and Windpower Monthly. Her freelance clients include the Ecologist, Resurgence, China Dialogue, the Economist World Ocean Initiative, Utility Week and the Guardian.
She was a finalist in the Guardian’s International Development Journalism competition 2009, and was part of the team that won PPA Business Magazine of the Year 2011 for Windpower Monthly. She also won an outstanding content award at Haymarket Media Group’s employee awards for data-led stories in Planning magazine.
She holds a 2:1 honours degree in English language and literature from the University of Birmingham, and completed a postgraduate course in journalism with PMA Training.
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Scientists are excited after finding samples of rock that suggest life may once have existed on Mars. They plan to bring them back to earth for further study.
Researchers have urged World Cup 2026 organisers to reschedule games to protect players from extreme heat.
Seed experts from multiple countries have gathered in Norway to protect crops from threats including war and extreme weather.
Melting glaciers caused seas to rise by nearly 2cm in just over 20 years, according to a new study.
Cooking methods, ventilation and location can all affect air pollution inside homes. This can be worse than outdoor pollution, researchers have found.
Nets strung up to collect fog could supply up to ten litres of water per square metre per day in the world’s driest regions for drinking, irrigation, and agriculture, according to a new study.
Researchers have found sub-microscopic particles of plastic in the high Alps. Now they want to expand the research worldwide.
Space agencies are actively monitoring an asteroid measuring up to 100m after experts warned of a risk it could hit earth in eight years’ time.
The LA fires demonstrate the devastation caused by rapid changes in the volatility of precipitation and evaporation, scientists say.
Climate change is expected to drive more frequent desert locust swarms, but researchers hope to have found a way to prevent them.
Ultra-wealthy people are increasing their use of private aviation, mostly to go on holiday, two new studies have revealed.
Though finance has increased slightly, it is still nowhere near enough, official analysis finds.
Under rocks and inside shells - more than 50 species of spider have been found living on a remote coastal nature reserve.
Scientists know that climate change is increasing deaths from wildfires in some areas but exactly where and by how much?
Ground-breaking project takes wasps on epic journey to the South Atlantic to control invasive species threatening bird species.
Scientists reveal the results of an ambitious international collaboration to study Antarctica’s most worrying glacier.
Deaths from heat could triple in Europe by 2100, mostly among people living in southern parts of the continent, according to new research.
Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco experienced extreme heat in July 2024, causing at least 23 fatalities, widespread wildfires and bringing public life to a hold. How has the heat affected the Olympics?
EU’s climate change monitoring service highlights ‘large and continuing shift’ in earth’s climate. The trend is ‘more than a statistical oddity’ it says.