For The New York Times, M.A. Columbia Journ alum Sarah Hurtes (MA Science '20) and julieturkewitz report that one of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing in the Amazon. nytimes.com/2022/08/10/wor…

NEW: Documents and dozens of interviews show that when the UNDP has partnered with Big Oil, the agency has tamped down opposition to drilling, conducted business analyses for the industry and worked to make it easier for it to operate in sensitive areas. nytimes.com/2022/08/10/wor…

My latest investigation with julieturkewitz on how UNDP has taken cash from the energy industry to quash opposition and keep oil flowing in the Amazon, even compiling dossiers on drilling opponents. Thanks to Matt Apuzzo Sofía Villamil Genevieve Glatsky: nytimes.com/2022/08/10/wor…

Beautiful The New York Times story linked to parenting, chess, and war, by Megan Specia: nytimes.com/2022/08/13/wor…

So exciting to see this amazing piece by Leigh Baldwin and Sean Williams on Rainer Sonntag, who slipped across the Iron Curtain to become one of Germany's leading Nazis. He was also a communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin: magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-lea…

This: Killing of Ranger Protecting Rhinos Raises Fears for Conservation Efforts nyti.ms/3PsvTOD

NEW: A The New York Times investigation that takes us deep into one of the continent’s oldest woodlands. Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy. nytimes.com/interactive/20… Weiyi (Dawn) Cai Andreea Campeanu Matt Apuzzo Josh Keller Simone Landon @MonaBoshnaq Peter Robins

Burning trees for electricity is insane. nyti.ms/3RnVaeu

Congratulations to Rebecca R. Ruiz who will join our first-ever dedicated international investigations team in London this autumn, alongside colleagues Megha Rajagopalan Justin Scheck Jane Bradley Selam Gebrekidan and Sarah Hurtes nytco.com/press/rebecca-…

Update: European lawmakers voted this week to phase out some wood-energy subsidies, but Wednesday’s vote in the European Parliament leaves key details unsettled and no changes will take place for at least a year: nytimes.com/2022/09/15/wor…

Wow! This is Wild: They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay. nyti.ms/3dMjLee

Interesting read about Meloni: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is wild from Emma Bubola: "Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February, Russian authorities have announced with patriotic fanfare the transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia to be adopted and become citizens": nytimes.com/2022/10/22/wor…

SHORT THREAD: After it murdered US-resident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia turned to golf in an effort to repair its tattered image. Who did it seek out for help? McKinsey. Story by ⁦Alan Blinder⁩ ⁦Sarah Hurtes⁩ nytimes.com/2022/12/11/spo…

Much of what happened remains unclear. But experts agreed on one thing: If a modern safety system had been in place as planned, it would have been all but impossible for two trains to end up on one track, speeding into each other. W/ Sarah Hurtes nytimes.com/2023/03/02/wor…

NEW: A The New York Times Investigation: How Qatar pressed a U.N. agency not to investigate labor abuses in the runup to the World Cup, with Rebecca R. Ruiz - #Qatargate nytimes.com/2023/03/11/wor…

My first profile for the The New York Times: While some see the crumbling Palace of Justice in Brussels as an eyesore and a bureaucratic nightmare, the architect André Demesmaeker sees beauty. His mission to bring the “Palace of Scaffolding” back to life: nytimes.com/2023/06/09/wor…

More than a dozen women describe systemic sexism, paternalism and crass remarks in the Spanish soccer league. “What you really need is a good man,” a former national captain said players were told. nyti.ms/462lh1m

EU border agency Frontex have been sharing coordinates of refugee boats in the Central Med with a ‘pirate’ vessel run by a Libyan militia known for kidnap & torture. The cooperation with the group, which is linked to Wagner, is an apparent violation of international law