So very honored that my @inthesetimes.com investigation on U.S. security assistance fueling violence against environmental defenders won an award from @coveringclimatenow.org.

Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.

So thrilled to see @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social win the ASJA's award for environmental/climate/sustainability reporting for her 2024 @inthesetimes.com investigation "The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders." I can't overstate how much painstaking reporting & research she put into this.

If you do good journalism & report accurately, you convey a worldview that is broadly congenial to liberals & infuriating to the right (not in every case, but generally). Journalism has to choose. And it is choosing, over and over again, to betray itself.

Thanks for the kind words, @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social! To join Alessandra in SEJ’s incredible community of environmental journalists, educators and students, apply now: www.sej.org/how-to-join-... More on Alessandra and her work: www.sej.org/sejspotlight...

1. Last October, for Atmos magazine, I spent time in Bhopal, India, speaking with survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak — the world’s worst chemical disaster. atmos.earth/meet-the-wom...

Imagine identifying a crisis, working for decades to see it solved, and then have to watch it return

NEW: these women survived the world’s worst industrial disaster. Forty years later, they’re still fighting for accountability. @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social

Luz — the vice-president of Kababaihang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas (KNBL) or women with extraordinary strength — shows me around her garden in the district of Tugbok on the Philippine island of Mindanao. #InternationalWomensDay

A few photos from reporting in the Philippine's far northern Cordillera region. L-R: - Lolo with little one in Hapid, Lamut. - Rice paddy and carabao in Lagawe. - Marceline and Virgi pick starfruit and guava in the hamlet of Olilicon.

I recently relaunched Defender — a newsletter about environmental violence and human rights — with a post about the anniversary of the killing of Berta Cáceres and global solidarity among environmental defenders around the world. Subscribe here: defender.beehiiv.com

NEW from @dropsitenews.com: In Sudan, Doctors Forced to Operate in Shipping Containers Buried Underground Healthcare facilities have been heavily attacked in the conflict between the RSF and the Sudanese National Army. Story by Eisa Dafalla www.dropsitenews.com/p/in-sudan-d...

Looking at photos from my reporting trip in central India last year (while I procrastinate from writing the actual story) and remembering what a privilege it was to spend time with this group of women — the story will be out in March.

Amazed by the risky but important work by Wally, Gina, Robert and the rest of @latimesphotos.bsky.social team to capture the devastation and humanity of all the fires raging across L.A. County. Stunning and humbling images 👇🏼 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Perhaps no better way to start using this app in earnest than posting a thread of a few of my favorite stories from this year...

On the occasion of Global Witness's new report on the murder of environmental activists worldwide, make time for Alessandra Bergamin's stunning @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social investigation about how that's played out in the Philippines, with U.S. government complicity. inthesetimes.com/article/bran...

In 2019, US activist Brandon Lee narrowly survived an assassination attempt widely attributed to the Philippine military. In this yearlong, blockbuster investigation @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social finds Lee's case is far from an anomaly inthesetimes.com/article/bran...