Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

I wrote this short piece about my call with Trump, and what it helped me to understand about how his administration works.

1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

Belatedly posting this since apparently a lot of people are using Bluesky these days. I remain very excited to be joining the team: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

Thrilled to be in such excellent company as a finalist for the California Book Award!

I reviewed @alexcuadros.bsky.social's anti-Rousseau portrait of how one indigenous group entered the illegal diamond trade (for better or worse).

I love that The Guardian found a Brazilian-Brit to narrate this excerpt of my book www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

My piece in the NYT today www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

I got the privilege of writing some text to accompany these beautiful photos by Musuk Nolte www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The rampant deforestation of the Amazon has the potential to be one of the most devastating policy failures in human history. In his new book, alexcuadros.bsky.social enriches our understanding of why it’s so hard to arrest the damage. My review for @newrepublic.com t.co/GTzUCHAXXE

Excellent review of a brilliant new book by @alexcuadros.bsky.social on the improbable story of Brazil's Cinta Larga people on whose lands some of the world's richest deposits of diamonds were discovered in the mid-20th century. Gripping read.

Half way through @alexcuadros.bsky.social's forthcoming When We Sold God’s Eye. It is very good indeed, a picture of Brazil really, all the crime and beauty, but through indigenous eyes. A taster here: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

An excerpt of my new book, out next week -- preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alex-...

Livro que Dom Phillips fazia ao ser morto foi concluído por amigos e sai em 2025 🎉🎉🎉 www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/walt...