In the predawn light, Lorene de Guzman paddles out to sea in the Philippines to hand-feed the giants living in the water. One of the behemoths swims up.
"Where have you been?" de Guzman asks the whale shark. "You must have traveled to a far-off place."
https://t.co/zAmXcOvVsn
The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize were recognized for “their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia,” with the committee noting that they were part of a broader struggle to protect press freedoms.
https://t.co/0oQmiau86X
No place in Aus has been hit harder by Covid than Wilcannia, a small outback town, a 10hr drive away from Sydney. In only two weeks, more than 1/10 of the town of 600 people had been infected with the virus. Soon, the number would approach 150, 90% being Aboriginal people. 1/12
As horrifying fires devastate large tracts of North America, Siberia, Greece and Turkey, have we already stepped over the brink? We're seeing the kind of escalating disasters some of us warned about for decades, as ecosystems are pushed past their tipping points.
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How Nations Are Learning to ‘Let It Go’ and Live With Covid. Recent work for @nytimes from Sydney, a city in an extended lockdown. Story by @suilee with pics from myself, @nadiashiracohen, @ore_huiying and others.
https://t.co/3ZQeWXyUng
Governments in Asia and Europe are encouraging people to return to daily rhythms and transition to a new normal in which subways, offices and restaurants are once again full. Increasingly, the mantra is the same: We have to learn to live with the virus. https://t.co/qrxbYzLSQi
‘Mining giant Rio Tinto allowed hundreds of irreplaceable Indigenous cultural artefacts from the iron ore rich Pilbara region to be thrown away at a rubbish dump in Darwin, and failed to disclose the disposal to Aboriginal traditional owners for decades.’
https://t.co/AqkxJpH17a
Last week I hit the road with writer Yan Zhuang @yanzhuang25 for my latest assignment for @nytimes, which took us out west to talk with farmers and the communities in Tottenham and Trundle about the impact of the ongoing mouse plague. Full story here: https://t.co/sI2hlZmEQc
They're devouring crops, biting people in their beds, dropping out of air-conditioning units and gnawing through appliances. Residents in parts of eastern Australia are contending with what they call the worst mouse plague in living memory. https://t.co/DXWClkoC25
As coronavirus cases explode in India, so has the collective grief and anxiety among the diaspora the world over, who described feelings of helplessness and sometimes guilt as they watch from afar.
https://t.co/hmzbC4v64C
The federal government is under pressure to justify its move to criminalise desperate Australians attempting to return home from COVID-ravaged India.
https://t.co/A2P9AnFOIl
Anyway if this has boiled your piss, sign the petition:
(1) To #RaiseTheAge
https://t.co/pMyt7AcBv0
(2) Against the NT government’s plans to introduce some of the harshest, most punitive youth justice laws in the country.
https://t.co/zwbU9JYml1
And follow @Change_Record.