Pioneering journalist will be remembered for passion for social justice and putting people at centre of stories
• From the Guardian archive: some of John Vidal’s greatest pieces
John Vidal, the Guardian’s former environment editor, has died aged 74. He died peacefully on Thursday in hospital, where he was being treated for cancer.
Vidal reported on the environment for the Guardian for almost three decades until retiring in 2017, calling it “the greatest job on Earth”. Afterwards, he continued to report from around the world with his trademark energy and enthusiasm and published a book, Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature, in June this year.
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