We are facing a global crisis of biodiversity loss that has been called planet Earth’s sixth mass extinction. At the same time, it is estimated that a language goes extinct every two weeks. These two processes are intertwined. unbiasthenews.org/on-the-verge...

"“They said that if we didn’t accept the flat, child protection services would come and take our children away.” Other Roma families displaced from Keleti told us stories of similar threats." unbiasthenews.org/we-can-only-...

Billions of euros to promote Roma inclusion are vanishing into projects with no transparency or measurable impacts. We found evidence of some of this EU money being spent on displacing or demonizing Roma communities in Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia and Italy. unbiasthenews.org/we-can-only-...

When you pick up a $1-plastic item from a dollar store shelf, you’re not just paying for the product; you’re stepping into a climate footprint that spans continents. New: unbiasthenews.org/dollar-store...

How do communities fight back against authoritarianism and elite capture? What are the tools and strategies in the Democracy Playbook? unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

Along the #Indo-Bangladesh border, #childhood is shaped by #fear and #stigma. From #WestBengal's #borderlands, I report on #loss, #securitisation and how it impacts #earlychildhood for Unbias The News. Edited by @tinaleeinberlin.bsky.social. The story: unbiasthenews.org/growing-up-t...

“We could not understand what was the basis of using live ammunition to attack people who may have been engaged in an illegal activity, but did not pose threat to life and yet were being fatally targeted for, say smuggling one cow." unbiasthenews.org/growing-up-t...

"The Brazilian media has become obsessed with Belém’s poverty and underdevelopment – shortcomings that weren’t deemed newsworthy until the urban Amazon became a focus of the world’s attention." unbiasthenews.org/cop-comes-to...

"Bwala also said that Nigeria’s government saw Trump’s threats as a negotiating tactic, and added that Nigeria’s government would welcome increased intelligence sharing from the United States." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

When the Indian government quietly approved projects that would cut through Goa’s ancient forests, an unlikely alliance rose in defiance. Read the latest in Democracy Playbook: unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

An accident at a Chinese mine poisoned homes and fields in Zambia. The compensation offers came with a catch: Don’t talk about it.

New: A community investigation in suburbs of Paris and Barcelona tracked indoor temps and found them soaring above the heat on the street or other parts of the city. Will urban inequality drive health risks from heatwaves? unbiasthenews.org/twenty-degre...

'They allege that officers, dressed in ‘full combat gear, often masked, carrying weapons, bearing flash grenades and tear gas canisters…have repeatedly advanced upon those present at the scene who posed no imminent threat to law enforcement.’ www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

"The biggest group affected by these deportations are unsheltered migrants – basically, those living on the streets – from Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Poland and Romania." balkaninsight.com/2025/10/06/t...

"A major new investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences." www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. But women are fighting back. unbiasthenews.org/community-in...

Artists and photographers own copyright to their content, and can sue if its reproduced without consent. Then why is it so difficult for OnlyFans creators to ensure their content isn't stolen? unbiasthenews.org/consent-viol...

The Playbook: How underdog CHP made a comeback and shook up Turkish politics unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

The fall of Assad brings into focus the tenuous place of 1.4 million Syrians in Europe. From legal and logistical barriers to the complexities of lives and identities split between different cultures, many Syrians are also grappling with their relationship to home. unbiasthenews.org/caught-betwe...

A migrant-led movement has used tactics from theatre to unionization to demand equal rights and dignity for those doing society’s most undervalued labor. unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Ever since sanitary workers were attacked, trash is piling up in Bamenda, Cameroon causing health problems, stifling business, and generally showing how conflict can poison every part of public life. unbiasthenews.org/unsolved-con...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

"The comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google... had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

In Karachi, where monsoon season often means days without electricity, flooded roads and property damage, is rain truly a rehmat (blessing) from nature or ongoing zehmat (misery) for city dwellers? unbiasthenews.org/fear-of-rain...

"Since the start of his second term, however, his administration has leaned less on climate denial and more on what might be called climate dismissal: diminishing, ridiculing or rejecting the idea that climate change is worth any effort to study or try to slow." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“We used to joke that there is an energy, a spirit of Roșia Montană. Once it gets hold of you, there is no escape. I wasn’t the only one who experienced this transformation. Many others lived this too.” unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

Ever heard of Rosia Montana in Romania? Miriam Tepes-Handaric shows how decades of creative resistance, lawsuits, and mass protest across the country have staved off powerful mining concerns determined to turn this ancient village into a cyanide pit unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

“A failure,” the judge wrote in court documents about the delayed alert. The deaths and devastation “all occurred amid the clear inaction of the regional administration.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

Attacked by government raids and militias in Libya, then pushbacks, discrimination and detention in Italy, a group of refugees from many different nationalities comes together to defend themselves and tell their story to the public: unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

Sandra knew nothing of the climate crisis and its causes, nor about food insecurity and the possible solutions to it, when she surrendered her weapon to the United Nations as part of a peace agreement reached by FARC with the government of Colombia. unbiasthenews.org/how-farc-sol...

NEW: As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social

Journalism needs courageous backers to fight back against the broligarchs. Can you pitch in 5 euros to help us fund local investigative climate journalism in Berlin? www.kickstarter.com/projects/pub...

Hey Berliner*innen- wir brauchen deine Hilfe! Mit einer kleinen Spende kannst du uns helfen zu zeigen, dass das, was auf Berlins Straßen passiert, wichtig für das Klima ist - und umgekehrt! Klick hier, um mehr zu erfahren: kickstarter.com/projects/pub...

Finding a foothold in Europe can be an immense logistical, economic, social and emotional challenge, but some immigrants are finding a sense of home in communities bound by belief. New @unbiasthenews.bsky.social unbiasthenews.org/faith-and-fi...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Fascinating story about a forgotten tragedy newrepublic.com/article/1935...

Help us fund local climate journalism, laser-focused on the problems affecting your kiez. How do we know? We asked! Pitch in five bucks today and help us make this project a reality: kickstarter.com/projects/pub...

news: A group of U.S. senators, including Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are urging Shari Redstone, Paramount's controlling shareholder, not to settle President Trump's lawsuit against "60 Minutes."

Help us fund journalism in Berlin that takes its cues directly from the public! @unbiasthenews.bsky.social is fundraising for new local climate investigations based on interviews with the public. Every single donation helps- click below to become a backer: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pub...

Winner of the Special Award of the European Press Prize and IJ4EU Impact award, check out the Border Graves Investigation, asking: What happens to those who die in their attempts to reach the European Union? unbiasthenews.org/border-grave...

Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the office’s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in women’s sports, and “woke ideology.”

Now that Trump wants to legalize #DeepSeaMining, its a good chance to revisit our deep dive into why governments and corporations are rushing to vacuum up "the common heritage of mankind" and what they want to use it for: unbiasthenews.org/the-race-to-...

Back our project and help us kick off a round of local climate journalism reporting in Berlin! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pub...

New: katiemariedavies.bsky.social dug into the environmental movement that swept over the USSR in the late eighties, and the lasting lessons for today's activists #DemocracyPlaybook Read here: unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...

"The Department of Homeland Security has said Ozturk engaged in activities “in support of Hamas,” a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, but neither that agency nor U.S. prosecutors have provided evidence for that claim." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Before he was helping the US disappear immigrants, El Salvador's Bukele was following a new playbook of crypto-carceralism: old-school authoritarianism coupled with a chaotic tech bro "move fast and break things" ethos. It hasn't aged well, writes @lyacg unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...