In August, I headed to Colombia to find out about the four missing children in the Amazon. Here’s what I found out — featuring fortune-tellers, ayahuasca rituals, a heroic dog, and more. magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi… Thanks to: The Atavist Magazine jonah ogles Seyward Darby

Absolutely insane and wonderfully told story by William Ralston –– including side-stories on how spirituality and practicality can overlap / how sometimes surviving is more difficult than dying an object of fascination & pity magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi…

This wild The Atavist Magazine story about four children lost in the jungle after a plane crash is so gripping that after it popped up on my feed in the checkout line, I sat in the parking lot for like 20 finishing it magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi…

Here’s the story behind my “Mayday” story, about the search for four children missing in the Colombian jungle. youtube.com/watch?v=cnFn01… The Atavist Magazine

The race to find four children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon.. A long piece but worth every word to the last one.. magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi…

Stoked to make this. The Atavist Magazine

"Mayday" is the incredible story of how four children survived 40 days in the Amazon, and the search-and-rescue teams that stopped at nothing to find them. A perfect Sunday read: magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi…

A plane crash deep in the Amazon kickstarts this story of a massive search for the survivors. But despite the stakes, William Ralston manages to keep his narrative from ever becoming overly sensational—only dramatic, and moving. magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi…

A condensed version of my The Atavist Magazine story about the children lost in the Colombian Amazon is today’s The Guardian Long Read — it’s a doozy!

The latest The Atavist Magazine story is an incredible story of survival and so much more by William Ralston You just have to read it magazine.atavist.com/mayday-colombi…

Editors' Pick: The race to find four kids who survived a plane crash in the Amazon. (via William Ralston for The Atavist Magazine in News+) apple.news/A3yexadThQJ-la…

A fake Indian cricket league was created for real online betting. It traced all the way to Russia trib.al/1VT6mGD

Hard to believe this could happen nowadays, but it did. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

What a mad story. I’d not heard of this. theguardian.com/environment/20…

In the USA, this would be a super-fund site and cleaned up by the federal government. It is insane that we are ignoring a giant environmental hazard because a council is avoiding statutory responsibility

From The Guardian Long Read: The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will no one stop it? by William Ralston Under Arnolds Field, tonnes of illegally dumped waste has been burning for 20 years. #Longreads #Longform theguardian.com/environment/20…

Morning! Check out this week's newsletter featuring Drew Harwell, Sarah Ellison, Sarah Treleaven, John Phipps, Dan McQuade, Amanda Hess, Clara Harter & more mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…

"One of the most surreal allegories for modern politics I’ve read this year: fires smolder just below the surface of a British field long treated as an illegal dump..." ✏️Jacob Feldman's pick by William Ralston theguardian.com/environment/20…

But as William Ralston writes, "for a private site to be designated as “contaminated”, it is not enough to...show evidence of contamination. You must...have evidence that the contaminants are seeping out of the site + harming the public." 2/6 theguardian.com/environment/20…