🌱Floods, cyclones, wildfires...Disasters often result from government, corporate & human decisions, not just natural hazards. Journalists' & investigators' work is key to informing debates & improving adaptation. A guide by Léopold Salzenstein: kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/climate-cha… #PressFreedomDay

We tracked an IDF combat engineering unit as they moved across Gaza, using social media and satellite imagery to build a picture of where they went, what they demolished and why.

By their own count, they destroyed hundreds of homes.

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Beautiful cartography in this Bloomberg piece on destruction and the spread of tent cities in Gaza and useful insight in this thread into the machine learning model behind it.

At least six Western aid groups serving displaced, injured and starving Gazans shared their locations with the IDF, but were hit by Israeli strikes regardless. The VI team collected visual evidence and internal communications to show what happened. nytimes.com/video/world/10…

Inspired by BIG LOCAL NEWS and Knight Foundation The Associated Press data team in the US and The Bureau Local and the BBC Shared Data Unit in the UK, the Lighthouse Reports data team had been had been seeking out a high-value data set full of opportunities for important, localized accountability stories. A 🧵

Climate finance experts tell me the UK's decision to 'double count' money as humanitarian aid and climate finance is “problematic” and a “clear deviation from the path to climate justice”.

What has gone wrong with UK climate finance?

A quick🧵...

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Today, the Environmental Investigative Forum launched #MineAlert Africa , a #geojournalism platform documenting biodiversity threats posed by mining licenses across the continent. It draws from Oxpeckers Center’s #MineAlert South Africa.

Interact here: infonile.org/en/mine-alert-…

As a Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at Pulitzer Center, I investigated illegal trade & smuggling of Congo’s timber. The Congo basin often called the heart of Africa is the world’s largest carbon sink. First story of the 4-part series is out today via The Africa Report. theafricareport.com/342361/how-con…

'This is not a stand-alone incident,' Biden said yesterday of the killings of World Central Kitchen staff. 'This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed.'

Some The New Humanitarian background: thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graph…

'The number of humanitarians killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in only 3 months last year, 161, is more than the deadliest year ever recorded for aid workers globally....nearly 3 times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year.'
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Behind the numbers: Léopold Salzenstein unpacks the story behind the unprecedented aid worker death toll in Gaza.
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'Experts warn that the military tactics unleashed on Gaza could worsen humanitarian insecurity elsewhere, as the international community turns a blind eye to collateral damage' The New Humanitarian Léopold Salzenstein thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graph…

'The number of humanitarians killed in #Gaza in only 3 months last year, 161, is more than the deadliest year ever recorded for aid workers globally.' Read it here - thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graph…
The New Humanitarian Léopold Salzenstein