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Web editor at the Thomson Reuters Foundation () covering climate change, tech & society and inequality | Write to me: tom.finn@tr.com

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  1. Festet tweet
    26. aug.

    Wildfires are burning from Siberia to Cape Town. But who are the people fighting them? 🔥🚒 My colleagues at spoke to five firefighters around the world 👨‍🚒👩‍🚒 Many are volunteers risking their lives and facing burnout. Check out their stories: 👇

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    Angre
  2. Retweetet
    3. sep.

    "My boyfriend is now in a refugee camp in Qatar...it makes me realise that I will never meet him again in person." Incredibly moving and powerful diary from a gay man trapped in Kabul under the Taliban.

    Angre
  3. 3. sep.

    Sign me up. (Just looking at these images of nature feels like a tonic... 🏞️ )

    Angre
  4. Retweetet
    2. sep.

    10% of new car sales in Norway in 2021 have been diesel or petrol. Let that sink in. It is normal to buy an electric car in Norway, an outlier to buy diesel or petrol. With policies, things can go fast.

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  5. Retweetet
    28. aug.

    Incredibly excited to share that my first byline with is out! 🥳 From apps to air miles: 7 ways tech can help Afghans A huge thank you to & team for working with me on this piece and bringing it to life!

    Angre
  6. Retweetet
    31. aug.

    With pandemic highlighting benefits of spending more time in , a growing faction of US medical community is prescribing time outdoors as they would traditional medication - very interesting story on our unnatural times by

    Angre
  7. 31. aug.

    “It’s not that I love Delhi,” he said. “I need the money to survive. If we had it, we would have stayed here. This is home.”

    Angre
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    31. aug.
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  9. Retweetet
    27. aug.

    This is so deeply strange yet so compelling. A French channel follows an English boy who “loves money”. To understand the UK, know that Jacob Rees-Mogg now helps lead the British government, and that this was, essentially, inevitable.

    Angre
  10. 27. aug.
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  11. Retweetet
    27. aug.

    A former minister in Afghanistan became delivery man in Germany. While interviewing him yesterday, I was constantly reminded of how much a migrant loses in starting over somewhere new. I wrote part of his story here:

    Angre
  12. Retweetet
    26. aug.

    A great piece on the power of humour shedding light in dark times in Lebanon by the amazing !

    Angre
  13. Retweetet
    26. aug.

    🏊🏽 Mosul resident Mahmood Muafaq is teaching kids to swim in a makeshift pool he built, in the hope of reducing drowning incidents in the nearby Tigris river

    Angre
  14. Retweetet

    🔥 are burning from Siberia to Sardinia. 🚨 But who are the people fighting them? 🗣 We spoke to five volunteer firefighters around the world as makes a tough job even harder. Here's what they had to say. 👇

    Angre
  15. 26. aug.

    👨‍🚒Will Harling grew up with fires encroaching on his cabin. As the Dixie fire rages across California, he fears for the health of his family. “We’ve been inhaling smoke that should have burned slowly over the past 100 years, it’s all concentrated now”.

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    Angre
  16. 26. aug.

    After fighting fires in Russia for 23 years, Grigory Kuksin had to stand back and let blazes engulf entire forests. Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other fires combined. “I saw humid wetlands on fire. It seemed impossible.”

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    Angre
  17. 26. aug.

    South African firefighter Slee Mbhele says her country's racial divisions dissolve when confronting a blaze. 70% of her volunteer force are men and she is the only Black female "I realised that this is my tribe. It doesn't matter who is under the mask"

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    Angre
  18. 26. aug.

    Firefighting can impact mental health. 👨‍🚒Daniele Scala saw wild boar caught in a blaze with "oven-cooked" corpses He volunteers because he loves trees🌲 "When summer ends you can look back and say 'at least we saved this pine grove. Our work paid off'"

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    Angre
  19. 26. aug.

    👩‍🚒Katherine Robinson-Williams was 14 weeks pregnant when she fought Australia's 2019 fires. One of three generations of women firefighters, she worries about a shortage of volunteers "Sooner or later, everyone else is going to actually have to step up"

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    Angre
  20. 26. aug.

    "The racial and economic divides that segregate the country seem to dissolve when confronting a blaze".

    Angre

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