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‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

On a small ledge in the Swiss mountains, 200 people were enjoying a summer football tournament. As night fell, they had no idea what was coming By Jonah Goodman. Read by Evelyn Miller. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

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  Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from th…

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  From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

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  ‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chin…

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  The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned f…

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  From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

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  A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

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  ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall …

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  From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famou…

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  The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

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  ‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists lef…

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  From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

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  ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

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  Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o an…

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  From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the wo…

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  ‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecologic…