Robin McKie gave prescient warnings about climate change

Robin McKie's account of his 40 years as Observer ’s science editor is as deeply absorbing as it is a warning to humanity.

He takes us back nearly 50 years to a warning that continued use of fossil fuel could lead to a 2C temperature rise by the mid-21st century threatening, among other potential catastrophes, a 5 m sea level rise.

Your leader examines the security concerns of primary steel making capacity.

After the Second World War , production was seen in terms of shared, rather than national, sovereignty in the shape of the European Coal and Steel Community .

Because of the war in Ukraine , increasingly prosecuted through European defence cooperation, a European energy and steel union could be founded.