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Environmental Journalist Focus: Former: & fellow Bylines: NYT, Guardian, FP etc

Barcelona (sometimes)
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Aug 2018

    Today on the , my thoughts on how to prevent the abuse of migrant domestic workers

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  2. Retweeted
    13 Aug 2020

    Shocking footage, but very important reporting by & on the absolutely outrageous treatment of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia. This is how one of the richest countries in the world treats its migrant workers.

    🚨 is arbitrarily detaining 100s if not 1000s of in appalling, overcrowded conditions with ltd access to food and water. has identified 2 of the detention sites in al-Dayer and Jizan. Watch our video:
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  3. 5 Aug 2020

    Here's a a crowd-sourced list built by activists of educational resources and local groups to support 🇱🇧

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  4. 5 Aug 2020

    AND donate to the Lebanese Red Cross 👇

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    5 Aug 2020

    Humanity at its best. A foreign worker heroically disposes to rescue a child in the house where she works at the time of the Beirut explosion.

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    5 Aug 2020

    This aerial footage shows the full scale of the destruction caused by a massive explosion in Beirut. For the latest on this blast in Lebanon, head here:

    Beirut explosion: Aerial shots of blast site
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  7. Retweeted
    8 Jun 2020

    It's 'just' one story about Ethiopian migrant workers in Lebanon, but exemplary for so many similar stories around the world of wage theft, employers abandoning migrant workers, limited consular assistance, inability to return home & stranded populations

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  8. 7 Jun 2020

    “Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.” Gwendolyn Brooks — the first black writer to win a Pulitzer (at only 33), born on this day in 1917 — on vulnerability as strength and her advice to writers:

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  9. Retweeted
    18 Feb 2020

    I really didn't enjoy writing this. There are so many good, uplifting, inspiring stories to tell. But it's just too sad and awful that we've gotten to a point where EU leaders openly say they want to avoid saving lives

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  10. Retweeted
    22 Nov 2019

    This great diagram by the World Resources Institute shows the sectors that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. The data is from 2005 though, does anyone know where I could get the latest data that makes up this image?

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  11. Retweeted
    16 Jan 2020

    2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade

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  12. Retweeted
    13 Jan 2020

    This is how ecofascism begins

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  13. Retweeted
    14 Dec 2019

    "We have surprisingly little empirical evidenceof how social, psychological, financial, geographical, and political factors contribute to conflict, and how climate change interacts with them."

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  14. 28 Nov 2019

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    Why Development Will Not Stop Migration.
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    26 Nov 2019

    Parts of the climate movement reproduce anti-immigration narratives - treating people who have to move because of climate breakdown as a threat. But migrant justice is central to climate justice

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    25 Nov 2019

    The evolution of through the 3 routes to - visual from my upcoming report on shifting Med migration dynamics. Coming early 2019.

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  17. Retweeted
    19 Nov 2019

    Immigrants or their children founded 45% of America's Fortune 500 companies, including Apple and Google

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    11 Nov 2019

    Cuando veo a estos chavales, veo a mis hijos. Tienen cuerpo de adultos y a veces la cagan, pero son solo unos niños que merecen todo el cariño de sus sociedades de acogida. Uno de ellos se quitó la vida la semana pasada, y yo pensé en mis hijos. DEP

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    21 Sep 2019

    Ni colapsan la sanidad ni reciben más ayudas sociales. Recopilamos algunas de las falsedades más repetidas sobre los inmigrantes. 👉

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  20. 19 Aug 2019

    Digital nomad = Passport privilege

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    By 2035 there could 1bn “location independent” workers
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  21. 19 Aug 2019

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    So let me get this straight, people fly to Indonesia, and as part of their "eco tourism" trip, take a boat ride to see a village that has sunk beneath the waves due to rising sea levels.
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