Greg Cochrane

String of European music festivals and gigs left devastated by extreme weather: “The unthinkable has happened”
Festival organisers speak to NME about the difficulties in adapting to extreme weather, as severe heat and storms forced the cancellation and evacuation of events in France, Belgium and The Netherlands – while UK shows also baked in record-breaking temperatures

Flow: the multinational, multi-genre sisterhood dubbed the ‘Spice Girls of the Amazon’
The mission-driven collective aim to lift up stories of how climate change and health is affecting women and water worldwide. With an album due later this year, NME follows them to Brazil to learn more about their music and message

DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith one year after LA’s wildfires: “It feels like swimming in trauma”
The frontman's family home was destroyed in January 2025 – he talks to NME about 12 months of "catastrophe" and "togetherness"

Inside ‘Takkuuk’, Bicep’s arresting new project spotlighting indigenous Arctic musicians
Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar’s next adventure in sound dives into the music of artists from Greenland, Norway and more, as the Belfast duo work with those acts to make a stunning new audio-visual installation

Climate change made deadly LA wildfires “more likely”, conclude leading scientists
New report released as MusiCares charity tell NME they’re now supporting 2,500 music industry workers following this month’s disaster

Hollywood director Adam McKay on LA wildfires “catastrophe” – and the enduring resonance of climate change blockbuster ‘Don’t Look Up’
The comedian who co-wrote 'Anchorman' and executive-produced 'Succession' is "heartbroken"

LA wildfires: More than 1000 music professionals supported by charity
"It’s almost impossible to describe the magnitude of the catastrophe and the loss in Los Angeles,” MusiCares spokesperson tells NME

Massive Attack tell us about tackling the climate crisis at gigs and new music incoming for 2025
Robert Del Naja and long-term collaborator Mark Donne told NME about the live music industry slowly waking up to the climate crisis, why the band turned down the opportunity to play Coachella 2025 and plans to work with Billie Eilish on her 2025 European tour

Lykke Li on saving the planet, new material and how “we’re at the after-party of the world”
The art-pop icon collaborates with Nature on 'TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’, and tells us how her next album is "trying to be rock ‘n’ roll, but also you can hear that it's from a very Swedish point of view"

Jarvis Cocker teases more Pulp shows and discusses new project ‘Biophobia’: “I used to be scared of nature”
The Pulp frontman’s climate-themed “PowerPoint presentation” also featured a musical collaboration with Richard Hawley

Christmas Number One hopeful Louise Harris says song tackles “how climate change affects us all”
Louise Harris was arrested for performing ‘We Tried’ outside Rishi Sunak's house – a song hailed by Chris Packham and described by Brian Eno as "a powerful weapon"

Overheated: Billie Eilish and mother “proud” to platform change makers at London climate event
NME caught up with Eilish's mother Maggie Baird and fellow activists as the artist and co-founder of Overheated spoke on stage at the gathering billed as a day of “climate conversations, plant-based food and community building"