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Rosa Furneaux
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Senior investigative reporter at SourceMaterial • Climate, corruption, democracy • Previously Reuters, TBIJ • [email protected]
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Repurposing a century-old vaccine offers a rare win-win for global health.
How One Vaccine Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Infections
A cheap and practical intervention, given at birth, could save lives in conflict zones and beyond.
foreignpolicy.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This story stemmed from this question: what will be the human toll of Trump's climate rollbacks?

Turns there is emissions modeling that can help provide an estimate.

Using modeling from @rhg.com we estimated the additional death toll as high as 1.3 million

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Delighted to be joining this year’s #WCSJ2025 in Pretoria, thanks to a generous grant from the wonderful @absw.bsky.social 💫

I’m really looking forward to connecting with other science journalists — if you’re heading to South Africa, please drop me a message!
✈️ Meet the six journalists attending #WCSJ2025 with the support of #ABSW
🔗zurl.co/fvqMR

🇺🇬 Uganda @DianaTaremwaK @DavisBuyondo @sharonmuzaki.bsky.social
🇬🇧 UK @DrYemisiBokinni @pauladepoju.bsky.social @rosafurneaux.bsky.social

@wcsj2025.bsky.social South Africa, 1-5 Dec
@wfsj25.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Can't recommend today's SourceMaterial offering enough, by @marcusleroux.bsky.social.

It's the story of the son of a lorry driver from Calabria who has often struggled to distance himself from the Italian mafia and is now poised to buy 11 North Sea gasfields

www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
North Sea Storm – SourceMaterial
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
www.source-material.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Wajã Xipai: I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? #Cop30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?
A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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'Amazon hides its water consumption' was one hypothetical headline the memo warned of

always amusing when someone writes down the thing they don't want to happen

nice work from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social @rosafurneaux.bsky.social @source-material.org

www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
www.source-material.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Amazon is "engineering industry standards to downplay its water use and avert scrutiny, said Nathan Wangusi, a former water sustainability manager at the company."

Important piece from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social & @rosafurneaux.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document obtained by SourceMaterial reveals →

www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
www.source-material.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Incredibly proud of our team at @source-material.org, who have been shortlisted in this year's @pressgazette.co.uk British Journalism Awards! 💫
We're very proud to be shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards alongside many other excellent journalists.

Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🎉Historic Court win🎉

The greenwashing adverts of fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies have been ruled illegal, in a case taken by
@amisdelaterre.org, @greenpeace.fr & @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social with our support. 1/4
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Nestle stuck it out less than 2 years with the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, and never actually reported its dairy methane emissions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact
The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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“We need to be honest with ourselves that travel is not sustainable in its current format and anything suggesting otherwise is greenwashing.”

Refreshing honesty from a global travel company

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Tour operator Intrepid drops carbon offsets and emissions targets
Firm will instead invest A$2m a year in ‘climate impact fund’ supporting renewables and switching to EVs
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Delighted to see my @source-material.org colleagues on this list! Congratulations Costanza and Leigh, and our partners at @lemonde.fr — their story revealed how TotalEnergies knew troops it funded stood accused of torture, rape and killing, but kept paying them
These stories are among the winners, announced today, of the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards!

Visit www.coveringclimatenow.org/awards to see them all, and help us celebrate this incredible work by resharing this post...
September 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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A British water company ordered tankers to halt deliveries to the English countryside estate of the American billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman, after local residents complained that some of the water was being used to fill a newly constructed lake on his property during a dry-weather period.
Amid Water Restrictions, U.K. Residents Express Outrage as Blackstone C.E.O. Fills Private Lake
A local water company said tankers of its water would no longer be sent to the American billionaire’s estate to fill his lake.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday.

www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
Palestine: hospital killings by Israeli forces show need for global action
The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...
www.nuj.org.uk
August 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
They're coming for our jobs?... You can get a robot to write AI op-ed slop, but you can’t get a robot to do on-the-ground, source-developed reporting

pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
pressgazette.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza, the world’s deadliest place for journalists. By @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social, and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A new documentary casts a spotlight on dissenting Russian journalists as the invasion of Ukraine unfolds. The film is propelled “by a spirit of journalistic community that feels fragile, resilient, and hard-won,” @justincchang.bsky.social writes.
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I” Is a Staggering Portrait of Russian Journalists in Dissent
In Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, filmed before, during, and after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several courageous Moscow reporters see their worst fears realized.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“We did not get where we wanted, but people want a deal. This work will not stop, because plastic pollution will not stop.”

UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social at the close of the second part of #INC5 in Geneva.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMe...

#PlasticsTreaty
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Starting in 5 mins: FINAL PLENARY at the #INC52!

Tune in to follow the #PlasticTreaty negotiations, as they spill over to the early hours of day 10. We hope to see a new dawn for the 3+ years of negotiations with strong, legally binding text:

📽️: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z...

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INC-5.2 on plastic pollution (part 5 )
Plenary continues at the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2)
webtv.un.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM