INTERACTIVE - How to make a forest reappear? We turned our National Geographic story into an interactive journey at the heart of the rainforest to show you how African scientists are putting the Congo Basin back on the map 🌱🌍 www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/gra...

It's not all bad news.... Great article by @melaniegouby.bsky.social on the Congolese scientists working to save the rainforest. www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest The Congo Basin has been largely invisible to climate science. A new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/... @melaniegouby.bsky.social

"It's the world's most critical rainforest, and you probably can't name it" Excellent piece by @melaniegouby.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social on the new generation of Central African researchers revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬

#aidmath #USAID estimates the US makes $231 in US-manufactured goods and services exports for every $1 spent on development projects in emerging markets. Between 2005 - 2015, nearly 2/3 of growth in US goods exports was to USAID partners – it helped pull the US out of recession.

#GOMA At least 900 bodies were recovered from the streets - not incl. bodies already in morgues + bodies buried quickly in compounds during the several days of fighting. Real death toll will be several 100s higher. It's the most intense fighting Goma ever saw say many inhabitants

🔴#RDC Corneille #Nangaa à #Goma parlant de Félix #Tshisekedi : "Il n'a jamais gagné l'élection. Si j'ai créé le monstre, je pense qu'il m'appartient de défaire le monstre. Si j'ai mis le Congo dans la m.... il m'appartient de régler le problème."

Thanks @skynewss.bsky.social for having me last night on The World to talk about the crisis in #Goma and the role of Rwanda in the conflict news.sky.com/video/in-ful...

#M23 says it has now full control of the airport after nearly 48h of heavy fighting - the airport also the site of a major @MONUSCO base. There are still pockets of resistance across town but the M23/RDF seem to have near complete control over #Goma

#Goma fighting is still ongoing this afternoon according to several sources who confirm at least one FARDC unit + Wazalendo are refusing to stand down. Fighting around the airport, Mount Goma and near the lake. #M23 has already announced controlling the city.

Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in #GOMA and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again...

Field workers in California stay home as immigration raids hit farms - a citrus growers group said 75% of the workforce didn't show up one day this week “If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation” calmatters.org/economy/2025...

The #M23/RDF have now taken Sake, a strategic small town just 25 kms from Goma. Experts have dismissed Goma as a potential target so far, but this conflict has taken proportions no one foresaw even 6 months ago. #DRC

The #M23 rebels and Rwandan forces took Minova today, a key town 40 kilometers of Goma. Until now, it was assumed #Rwanda would stay clear of Goma: taking the city in 2012 had been a major strategic mistake, leading to the rebellion's demise. This may no longer be true. #DRCconflict

Fresh publication 📰 On how Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – through institutionalised tactics by the government that left them poor and thus relocatable. theconversation.com/tanzanias-ma...

"Netanyahu delays cabinet vote on Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal and hostage release" This was entirely predictable. It's been cost-free for him to resist ending the war because Washington imposes no costs. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for the devastating California fires www.latimes.com/environment/... @weatherwest.bsky.social

#M23's incursions impact mineral pillage in eastern #CongoK. After Rubaya fell, a UN report found minerals were smuggled through Rwanda, noting a 50% increase in #Rwanda's #coltan exports in 2023.

Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?

for those able, grassroots civil society and mutual aid groups at the frontlines of relief efforts in the parts of Sudan most impacted by state violence, are accepting donations via the Sudan Solidarity Collective here: sudansolidarity.com

"Blinken said that the state department had conducted months of deliberation...Just days earlier, Blinken had dismissed suggestions that events in Gaza constituted genocide, responding: “No, it’s not” in an interview with the New York Times." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

In this 1997 profile, I quoted Jean Marie Le Pen asking me, "What do I have to do to not be racist? Marry a black woman? With AIDS, if possible?” He then wrote my editor that I botched his “joke" because he’d said “un noir”—a black man—not “une noire.” Awful man. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

The North Sea is a hard place to love, but what lies beneath is fascinating. My new story for @hakaimagazine.com is about prehistory, lost lands, climate change, and rising seas: a story of our past and our future hakaimagazine.com/features/con...

REPORTAGE. Caché dans la jungle, un hôpital à l'épreuve des bombes, fondé par de simples étudiants en médecine. Entre ses murs se croisent civils, soldats, nourrissons... Un concentré de la guerre en Birmanie🇲🇲 www.liberation.fr/internationa... #WhatshappeninginMyanmar @liberation.fr