My latest in Lost Art Media, a profile of sculptor Rufus Martin and his series of sculptures based on Milton's Paradise Lost in London's Bowman Gallery: www.lost-art.media/art/an-angel...

I dunno, convert some of the endless paved space reserved for cars into green space that can absorb water, maybe? Sorry, forget it. That could result in a car owner being inconvenienced, which would of course be far worse than the flooding of our cities and towns.

"In a sea of silence, abandonment and violence, they offer the rarest thing: someone is still looking for you. […] That your life matters." Journalist @alexhowl.bsky.social was onboard the #OceanViking during 2 rescues and the shootings by Libyan Coast Guard. 👇 www.service95.com/the-reality-...

My story for @service95stories.bsky.social on @sosmediterranee.org's Ocean Viking. The Libyan 'coast guard' opened fire, risking the lives of survivors and crew. It was a privilege to see them in action - truly incredible people #searchandrescue #Mediterranean www.service95.com/the-reality-...

On Sunday I was on board the Ocean Viking when the Libyan coast guard opened fire, circling the vessel several times and shooting while crew and survivors were on the bridge and deck. This direct attack on the lives of at-sea rescuers is unprecedented and demands swift & decisive action from the EU

My review of Barbie Latza Nadeau's book 'Every Body Counts: Money, lies and the hidden trade in human lives' in the TLS: the-tls.com/regular-feat... As human trafficking becomes the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, Nadeau's book is nothing less than essential reading

THE HIDDEN PRICE OF LUXURY: uncovering leather handbags in the EU and UK exposed to illegal deforestation and land grabs in Brazil’s Amazon. Our findings raise questions about the supply chains of luxury fashion. 📖 Read the full report: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/hidden-...

After 3 days sailing from Malta’s SAR region, we reached the distant port of #Savona to disembark 73 survivors. It was our first time here. Despite the distance, we were met with warmth. One survivor said quietly: “لا مزيد من الناس السيئين” - “no more bad people.”

📣 #RefugeeWeek event! Join us for a lively panel discussion with authors of Wander Women, @alexhowl.bsky.social‬ and Alexandra Blanchard, and Dr. Ayla Emminck of @sosmediterranee.org‬. 📍 Pimlico Library, London ⏰ Weds 18 June, 6:15 - 7:15PM 🎟️ Free tickets:

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If you’re around on 18th June please come to Pimlico Library for a #refugeeweek panel with @sosmediterranee.org and @4refugeewomen.bsky.social where women will be talking about search and rescue & experiences of the U.K.‘s asylum system refugeeweek.org.uk/event/wander...

Our latest community journalism pilot, Bradford StoryHub, has just recently launched! In partnership with Bradford Community Broadcasting, we’ll be supporting locals in Bradford to develop the skills and confidence to tell their own stories and hold power to account

If you’re around on 18th June please come to Pimlico Library for a #refugeeweek panel with @sosmediterranee.org and @4refugeewomen.bsky.social where women will be talking about search and rescue & experiences of the U.K.‘s asylum system refugeeweek.org.uk/event/wander...

The government has FROZEN ALL DECISIONS for Syrians applying for asylum or settlement for nearly 6 months😱😱😱 Roughly 7,000 people left in limbo & denied the right to work - this is completely INSANE.

Reform UK exemplifies a new model of politics shaped by the logic of the attention economy, where virality and outrage matter more than governance, delivery, or outcomes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Italian authorities have assigned @sosmediterranee.org a distant PoS in #Ancona 1497km away, approx. 4d of travel. Onboard are 276 survivors, including 6 children and 3 babies. This decision keeps us away for many days from the area at sea where most vital lifesaving operations take place

„So trieben wir, Leute wurden krank. Einige starben … Einige hatten denselben Traum, dasselbe Ziel, aber sie kamen nie an.” Abdou hat es vom #Senegal nach #Tenerife geschafft u. konnte s. Geschichte @ejfoundation.org erzählen. Tausende werden sie nie erzählen können. @oceanographicmag.bsky.social

“So, we stayed there and people started getting sick. Some died. May their souls go to paradise. Some of them had the same dream and purpose, but they never arrived.” @oceanographicmag.bsky.social new long read from @ejfoundation.org latest report oceanographicmagazine.com/features/the...

New report from @ejfoundation.org covered by @apnews.com “I get so angry when (foreign nations) complain about immigration because they are the real pirates and what they did is worse than clandestine immigration. It’s theft, plundering our resources ... while we suffer" apnews.com/article/migr...

The consequences of industrial fishing are contributing to the troubling increase in migrant deaths at sea. Senegal’s fisheries must be returned to the Senegalese people. Senegal's government, the European Union, and industrial fishing entities must ensure stronger governance and transparency now.

The route from Senegal to the Canary Islands is one of the deadliest. Tragically, there were over 3,000 deaths in 2023 alone. Our film follows one young Senegalese fisher, Abdou, who is forced to make this journey. He says, “some people had the same dream and purpose as me, but they never arrived.”

📣 New report and film Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and overfishing in Senegal are devastating fish populations and coastal communities, leading to increased forced migration to Europe across the world’s most deadly migration route. Hear their stories 🎬

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

"I became like a slave, without any capacity to think or act or do.” 43 women in Argentina have accused Opus Dei – a secretive Catholic group – of coercing them as children and adolescents into a life of domestic servitude. This is their story. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Shocking & important story on treatment of migrant fishing crew from @heldavidson.bsky.social featuring @ejfoundation.org. After one Indonesian crew member died at sea, his family were given £9.60 as compensation. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Fishing is often these communities’ only source of income. Their livelihoods are severely impacted by plastic pollution, as fish that could be caught and sold are instead entangled in these nets. To address this issue, Net Free Seas connects communities with recyclers, who pay them directly.

“Their families don’t have any idea whether they are still alive or not" @nytimes.com coverage of @ejfoundation.org new report revealing that Chinese fishing vessels used North Korean labour in breach of UN sanctions. The NK crew spent up to 10 years at sea www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.

1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement: freemovement.org.uk/good-charact... And I've done a follow up on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing method that involves dragging weighted nets across the seabed. In France, it is still carried out in 77% of marine Natura 2000 sites. Over the last five years, about 200,000 hours of trawling were recorded each year in French MPAs, when there should be none.

With Défense des Milieux Aquatiques, we have launched legal action against France for failing to protect Natura 2000 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). We're taking our case to 🇫🇷's courts to stop bottom trawling in the Chausey & Bancs des Flandres MPAs, which violates national & EU law.

“Astonishing and, frankly terrifying” - hottest Jan on record shocks scientist as emerging La Niña fails to dampen record temperature on.ft.com/3WQI51X with @janatausch.bsky.social

This week's climate newsletter from CB: bit.ly/4glefJN For this edition's 'spotlight', I spoke to a young female journalist from Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex. Via the camp's radio station, Fardowsa is documenting how, more and more, people are arriving in her community because of climate change.

"Khaira Hassan Mohammed has lived in the camp since the 2011 famine, and is now 99 years old and in need of medical care. She had six children, but she has buried them all since arriving." @ejfoundation.bsky.social @theecologist.org @stevetrent.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/jan/23/...

This is some bombshell, scandelous, spy-novel-esque news in the climate space: It’s alledged that a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil engaged in hacking and targeting 128 climate activists and/or environmental organizations involved in climate ligation to discredit those individuals/groups.

It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth

I wonder whether the shruggish assumption of “find a rich partner” / “all writers have had to marry rich”, is partly because there is an expectation (from some corners) to be discreet about non-writing 9-5s?

Drax power station is the UK’s largest single source of carbon emissions, yet it is being propped up by public money. These subsidies impose a triple cost on the UK public – taxes, higher energy bills, and the impacts of the climate crisis. They must end. More from @alexmackaness.bsky.social 👇

Come along to @ejfoundation.bsky.social's screening of 'Radio Dadaab' at the Frontline Club next Weds, followed by panel with MP @chionwurah.bsky.social, @wanderinggaia.bsky.social and @maybulman.bsky.social & drinks 'The Human Cost of the Climate Crisis' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-the-...

That abortion remains criminalised is a national embarrassment. I don’t think it takes having had an unwanted pregnancy to empathise with this kind of trauma, but it makes for a difficult read. The nightmare they have had to go through…and for what?

Amazing news that Norway's first licensing round for deep-sea mining in the Arctic has been cancelled 👏👏 “The Arctic Ocean is one of the last pristine frontiers already under significant stress from the climate crisis” @ejfoundation.bsky.social t.co/fGRIMlrN0D

This headline doesn't quite get to the nub of the story - over 100 countries broadly agreed we need to reduce single-use plastics. It was a few petrostates and international corporations that torpedoed the talks www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Hundreds of hours of painstaking work went into this, from journalists, editors, subs and lawyers. It is available for free in The Observer. For now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Today, the final talks to decide on a Global Plastics Treaty started in Busan, South Korea (#INC5). This is a critical moment for the world to come together and take meaningful steps towards ridding our bodies and environment of plastic. ejfoundation.org/news-media/o...

New report and film 🚨 #ClimateBreakdown is the issue of our time. In the Horn of Africa, a humanitarian crisis has grown after years of drought and deadly floods. "Dadaab's Silent Crisis" shares the stories of #ClimateRefugees in the region, in their own voices: ejfoundation.org/reports/dada...

Watch EJF's new film 'Radio Dadaab' about intergenerational climate refugees living in Kenya's Dadaab Refugee Camp. One woman told EJF during a trip to the camp, "I’m a mother and a father for my kids, and I don’t have anything for them." @ejfoundation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?si=a7z...

And the lesson is: environmental policies are much cheaper than the alternative.

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#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity #COP29 Story by me Data @carbonbrief.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...