Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Repurposing a century-old vaccine offers a rare win-win for global health.

This story stemmed from this question: what will be the human toll of Trump's climate rollbacks? Turns there is emissions modeling that can help provide an estimate. Using modeling from @rhg.com we estimated the additional death toll as high as 1.3 million www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Delighted to be joining this year’s #WCSJ2025 in Pretoria, thanks to a generous grant from the wonderful @absw.bsky.social 💫 I’m really looking forward to connecting with other science journalists — if you’re heading to South Africa, please drop me a message!

Can't recommend today's SourceMaterial offering enough, by @marcusleroux.bsky.social. It's the story of the son of a lorry driver from Calabria who has often struggled to distance himself from the Italian mafia and is now poised to buy 11 North Sea gasfields www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...

Wajã Xipai: I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? #Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Amazon hides its water consumption' was one hypothetical headline the memo warned of always amusing when someone writes down the thing they don't want to happen nice work from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social @rosafurneaux.bsky.social @source-material.org www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...

Amazon is "engineering industry standards to downplay its water use and avert scrutiny, said Nathan Wangusi, a former water sustainability manager at the company." Important piece from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social & @rosafurneaux.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document obtained by SourceMaterial reveals → www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...

Incredibly proud of our team at @source-material.org, who have been shortlisted in this year's @pressgazette.co.uk British Journalism Awards! 💫

🎉Historic Court win🎉 The greenwashing adverts of fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies have been ruled illegal, in a case taken by @amisdelaterre.org, @greenpeace.fr & @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social with our support. 1/4

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

Nestle stuck it out less than 2 years with the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, and never actually reported its dairy methane emissions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“We need to be honest with ourselves that travel is not sustainable in its current format and anything suggesting otherwise is greenwashing.” Refreshing honesty from a global travel company www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Delighted to see my @source-material.org colleagues on this list! Congratulations Costanza and Leigh, and our partners at @lemonde.fr — their story revealed how TotalEnergies knew troops it funded stood accused of torture, rape and killing, but kept paying them

A British water company ordered tankers to halt deliveries to the English countryside estate of the American billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman, after local residents complained that some of the water was being used to fill a newly constructed lake on his property during a dry-weather period.

The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr

They're coming for our jobs?... You can get a robot to write AI op-ed slop, but you can’t get a robot to do on-the-ground, source-developed reporting pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza, the world’s deadliest place for journalists. By @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social, and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/urge...

A new documentary casts a spotlight on dissenting Russian journalists as the invasion of Ukraine unfolds. The film is propelled “by a spirit of journalistic community that feels fragile, resilient, and hard-won,” @justincchang.bsky.social writes.

“We did not get where we wanted, but people want a deal. This work will not stop, because plastic pollution will not stop.” UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social at the close of the second part of #INC5 in Geneva. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMe... #PlasticsTreaty

Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties

Starting in 5 mins: FINAL PLENARY at the #INC52! Tune in to follow the #PlasticTreaty negotiations, as they spill over to the early hours of day 10. We hope to see a new dawn for the 3+ years of negotiations with strong, legally binding text: 📽️: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z... (1/🧵)

Nothing to see here, just the planet edging ever closer to deadly hot & humid conditions www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

$80bn of *subsidies* provided to plastic producers, rising to $150bn by mid-century Governments in 71 nations examined provided that $80bn through tax breaks, revenue certainty, support for process energy, grants, in-kind contributions, and below-market financing rates www.edie.net/plastics-ind...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation into a World Bank-backed plastic credits scheme shows it has sparked controversy in Accra, Ghana. Waste picker associations say they are 'sick and tired' of the 'false solution'. With @ajenglish.bsky.social: www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

Friends, are you headed to Switzerland for the UN #PlasticsTreaty? I’ll be in Geneva next week, and I want to chat! If you’re involved in plastics advocacy, science, industry or policymaking, I’m eager to meet you. Please drop a message in my DMs and let’s find a time to get coffee 🇨🇭

The @theguardian.com view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge - Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interests #plasticstreaty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Early-career reporters in the UK, be sure to check out the John Schofield Trust mentoring scheme — applications are open now! I've loved mentoring young journalists on this program, which offers bespoke one-to-one coaching and access to a variety of masterclasses. More details here →

UK journalist friends: the NUJ, along with our colleagues in the IFJ and Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, have organised an open letter calling for the government to exert pressure for international journalists to be allowed into Gaza. Please consider signing: www.warchild.org.uk/protecting-j...

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

The UN’s highest court has said countries are legally obliged to fight climate change, in a decision that could increase the chance of nations hit by extreme weather claiming damages from other governments

Shell, Aker BP, and Enbridge have all quit the expert advisory group of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) because the draft standards for net zero require them to refrain from developing new oil and gas fields and significantly reduce their oil and gas production. 🙄

Donald Trump has a long-held disdain for wind farms and previously complained about a development offshore spoiling the views from his golf course in Aberdeenshire

As President Trump heads to Texas to see the impact of last week’s deadly flash floods, the White House has backed away from plans to abolish FEMA, officials said.

NEW: our investigation reveals former Trump associates are cashing in as the US cuts aid. Lobbyists linked to the Tump administration struck $17 million in deals with fragile states, many trading minerals, military access & more. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—a grim milestone one activist group calls a “point of no return.” But one problem with points of no return is that they don’t tell you much about what comes afterward.

While warehouses in the U.S. overflow with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (known as RUTFs), designed to treat severe malnutrition, children in places like South Sudan are going hungry.

Scoop: The Energy Department has hired at least three scientists who are well-known for their rejection of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, according to records reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...

Pakistan is very very rapidly embracing solar, and just like here, utilities are fighting it www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work

Our latest story about a major coltan exporter in Rwanda ... www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn

🗒️ Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, is calling for criminal penalties for those spreading fossil fuel disinformation, as well as a total ban on industry lobbying and advertising. Read more via @guardian: buff.ly/TY7gdlC

After a decade on the run from the Italian justice system, how far would you go to obtain a diplomatic passport? Read our @alphaville.ft.com story on the life and death of the fugitive carbon credit broker who worked with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero. www.ft.com/content/84d9...

How much water do Britain's data centres use? Bafflingly, there is no official figure. So here's my best estimate after weeks of reporting: circa 10 billion litres of water a year. And that's before any big UK AI boom. Story in @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...