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🔎 Attention investigative journalists! Do you have a strong hypothesis on a critical environmental issue, aim to collaborate across borders, and require financial or mentorship support? Apply for a grant with Journalismfund Europe until 22 January 2026! t.ly/hrpEu
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Big thank you to @journalismfund.bsky.social for dreaming up this panel and supporting our work.
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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When I started using data as the backbone for my ocean investigations, I noticed a BIG shift in impact. 📊

This Thursday, I’ll be sharing insights into data-driven science investigations with Roxanne Joseph @oxpeckersnews.bsky.social, Rob Spaull IBPES and Tadeusz Michrowski at @wcsj2025.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Have you got a idea for a fellowship or training programme that will boost environmental journalism in Europe? Apply for the Professional Development for Environmental Journalism grant with us and get the funds you need to carry it out! t.ly/NjkFz Next deadline: 22 January 2026, 1pm CET
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🖼️ Locals in St Malo, France, express a “sense of dispossession”, while those of Sintra in Portugal feel they live in a “theme park”.

This investigation shows how smaller towns grapple with the impact of holidaymakers.

Read more here: t.ly/dKsgl

#Investigations #Crossborder #Plupro
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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En el #mediterraneanday hay que hablar de la #posidonia una planta clave para nuestra supervivencia y hoy amenazada por el turismo. Un reportaje apoyado por al @journalismfund.bsky.social y publicado en @ctxt.es ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
El turismo devora el pulmón marino del Mediterráneo
Las actividades náuticas y la polución amenazan la posidonia, una planta esencial para la biodiversidad y el mayor sumidero de carbono del ‘Mare Nostrum’
ctxt.es
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🛶 Prejudice often sows distrust across borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

👁️These stories investigate cooperation where environmental activists resist business interests, nationalist politicians, and cross-border complexities.

Read more: t.ly/vCr4x

#Investigations #Crossborder #Plupro
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Cut through the AI hype affecting communities and tell the human stories that matter?

This 90-minute online workshop that will equip you with practical tools to report on AI, even if you have no technical background.

Read more and sign up here: t.ly/w-Kw1
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The #manosphere, once just an online world of male-dominance and anti-feminist ideologies is rapidly moving offline. Journalists track how leading figures build clubs, business ventures and monetise young men’s insecurities under the banner of “self-improvement.”
Find out more 👉 t.ly/_LO2C #plupro
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The issue primarily concerns gypsum waste. This is particularly paradoxical, as gypsum can actually be recycled infinitely, and appropriate recycling facilities exist in Germany. However, the allegedly illegal disposal in neighboring Czechia is apparently more lucrative.

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November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Crooked deals with waste are just as lucrative to drug deals – only easier to conceal. We went undercover to show how two companies from 🇩🇪 & 🇨🇿 are making hundreds of thousands of tonnes of debris from construction and demolitions disappear just behind the border.

correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

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White Gold: Debris and Deception
Dirty deals with waste: Huge quantities of construction and demolition debris have been disappearing for years just across the Czech border.
correctiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Is waste that is officially considered "utilized" in Germany actually being illegally disposed of in neighboring Czech Republic?

This is the latest investigation of our #DemolitionAtlasEurope project, supported by @journalismfund.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
❓What really happens when Europeans drop clothes into “reuse” bins? Large volumes of those garments from EU countries are often shipped thousands of kilometres to loosely regulated free zones for sorting and cleaning. Learn more in the new investigation: t.ly/oVXGk #earthinvestigations
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🐐 The surge in goat herds in Mongolia, in response to European fashion demand, is stripping pastures bare, speeding up desertification, and trapping herding families in debt and instability. Read more in the new investigation, now out in @planetafuturo.bsky.social and @irpimedia.eu: t.ly/ZeKYx
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🌊 This Friday, on the Day of the Mediterranean, join Journalismfund grantees and AMWAJ at the next #Tabadul session! The team of journalists will talk about their joint investigation “The Impact of Sea Snot in the Marmara Sea, Greek and Italian Coasts”.
📅 28/11, 10:00–11:00 CET
t.ly/e8Gei
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🌊 New investigation: Will Technology Solve Southern Europe’s Water Crisis – or Make It Worse?
Three journalists spent over a year in Spain and Italy investigating desalination, EU funding, technological solutions, conflicts of interest, and environmental impacts. t.ly/AcmO5 #earthinvestigations
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🔎 Attention investigative journalists! Do you have a strong hypothesis on a critical environmental issue, aim to collaborate across borders, and require financial or mentorship support? Apply for a grant with Journalismfund Europe until 22 January 2026! t.ly/hrpEu
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🌊 This Friday, on the Day of the Mediterranean, join Journalismfund grantees and AMWAJ at the next #Tabadul session! The team of journalists will talk about their joint investigation “The Impact of Sea Snot in the Marmara Sea, Greek and Italian Coasts”.
📅 28/11, 10:00–11:00 CET
t.ly/e8Gei
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
⛈️ Italy and Greece, hit hard by recent floods, are shifting disaster recovery responsibility onto private insurance.

💢This investigation points to the disadvantages of relying on private markets for extreme weather relief with rising costs.

Read more below: t.ly/kp9kv

#Investigation #Plupro
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🍷This investigation dives deep into the world of #wine #competitions.
With the rise of global competitions and alarming fraud cases, journalists spoke to industry insiders to uncover how these competitions operate, often lacking the oversight you might expect.
Read more 👉 t.ly/M4zuU #plupro
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🇪🇺📥 A sneak peek inside this week’s Europe Uncovered: a system trapping mothers fleeing abuse; wrongful arrests; sanction loopholes; and a migration crackdown that punishes ordinary citizens

👉 Here’s Europe’s hardest-hitting investigations of the week: www.ftm.eu/articles/new...
Newsletter | Trapped mothers, warped justice & Europe’s quiet complicity
Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism
www.ftm.eu
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Does your NGO want to contribute to a more resilient environmental journalism ecosystem? We can support you: apply for a grant to finance training and fellowship programmes aimed at strengthening environmental investigative reporting in Europe. t.ly/NjkFz
Next deadline: 22 January 2026, 13:00 CET.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Out on @worldcrunch.com the English version of the piece I co-authored with Marina Sardiña on the growing surrogacy market in Colombia for @lamarea.com. Supported by @journalismfund.bsky.social.

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Poor Women, Faux Altruism: Inside Colombia’s Booming Surrogacy Trade
With no clear law in place, Colombia’s surrogacy network expands through loopholes, intermediaries and vulnerable women. An exclusive investigative report by La Marea.
worldcrunch.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#investigation: Driven out of the Danube Delta by corruption and difficulty obtaining legal permits, fishermen sought a fair shot on Italy’s Po River - only to meet the same failures. Now fish once legally taken in Romania are being poached in Italy and then resold in Romania. t.ly/pAan4
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM