As a Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at Pulitzer Center, I investigated illegal trade & smuggling of Congo’s timber. The Congo basin often called the heart of Africa is the world’s largest carbon sink. First story of the 4-part series is out today via The Africa Report. theafricareport.com/342361/how-con…

📢NEW TOOL Today, the Environmental Investigative Forum launched #MineAlertAfrica, a #geojournalism platform documenting biodiversity threats posed by mining licenses across the continent. It draws from Oxpeckers Center’s #MineAlert South Africa. Interact here: infonile.org/en/mine-alert-…

Climate finance experts tell me the UK's decision to "double count" money as humanitarian aid and climate finance is “problematic” and a “clear deviation from the path to climate justice”. What has gone wrong with UK climate finance? A quick🧵... carbonbrief.org/revealed-uk-do…

Inspired by BIG LOCAL NEWS and Knight Foundation The Associated Press data team in the US and The Bureau Local and the BBC Shared Data Unit in the UK, the Lighthouse Reports data team had been had been seeking out a high-value data set full of opportunities for important, localized accountability stories. A 🧵

At least six Western aid groups serving displaced, injured and starving Gazans shared their locations with the IDF, but were hit by Israeli strikes regardless. The VI team collected visual evidence and internal communications to show what happened. nytimes.com/video/world/10…

Beautiful cartography in this Bloomberg piece on destruction and the spread of tent cities in Gaza and useful insight in this thread into the machine learning model behind it.

We tracked an IDF combat engineering unit as they moved across Gaza, using social media and satellite imagery to build a picture of where they went, what they demolished and why. By their own count, they destroyed hundreds of homes. bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

🌱Floods, cyclones, wildfires...Disasters often result from government, corporate & human decisions, not just natural hazards. Journalists' & investigators' work is key to informing debates & improving adaptation. A guide by Léopold Salzenstein: kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/climate-cha… #PressFreedomDay

This is a plea for help: a group of 20 people were apprehended in Tunis, near the UNHCR, then driven 100s of kilometres, closer to the border with Algeria. They have toddlers and children so the need for assistance is a pressing priority. Any orgs/humanitarians out there?

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

Barclays helped raise $41bn in sustainability-linked finance for fossil fuel companies - a move branded “totally dishonest” by one of its investors in this last The Bureau of Investigative Journalism story from me and Josephine Moulds. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

300 contaminants dans nos nappes : avec Léa Sanchez , nous avons analysé huit années de mesures dans les eaux souterraines.

#EUWaterCrisis Our new cross-border project Under the Surface shows that our precious groundwater is becoming scarce and increasingly polluted in Europe. The story, along with the amazing data work/map by DATADISTA is here: europeanwaters.eu

We are proud to announce the publication of "Under the Surface" – a pioneering investigation into Europe's groundwater crisis. This cross-border project provides a comprehensive overview of the condition of groundwater across 🇪🇺 👉 t.ly/JhGDF #EUWaterCrisis

La dégradation généralisée des sols alarme l’Unesco. Par Le Monde Planète Erosion, artificialisation, contaminations : les périls s’accumulent sur ces écosystèmes indispensables à la vie. 90 % d’entre eux pourraient être affectés d’ici à 2050 urls.fr/htvNXp

Human Rights Watch publishes the most comprehensive account of what happened on October 7. Based on interviews with 94 survivors & analysis of over 280 photos/videos, the 236-paged report documents war crimes and crimes against humanity by Palestinian armed groups. hrw.org/report/2024/07…

🌟🌟🌟 Je publie un livre-enquête sur l'#hydrogene le 30 août aux éditions le passager clandestin ! lepassagerclandestin.fr/catalogue/essa…

MISSING PERSON - PLEASE HELP My friend's dad had an accident in the Ariège region of the Pyrenees on Tuesday. Mountain rescue are trying to locate him Has anyone seen him? His car has been found near Pouech de Gerac and he was last seen at 12:30pm Tues near Etang de la Piede

Proton, l’entreprise qui propose des services de mail, calendrier et stockage de fichiers sécurisés et respectueux de la vie privée, devient une fondation à but non lucratif. Et c’est une très bonne nouvelle proton.me/blog/fr/proton…