Philip Jacobson
@philjaco.bsky.social
Journalist @mongabay.com based in Chiang Mai. Recent @pulitzercenter.org fellow covering the global shark trade. Follow dulu nanti saya follbak
'Another shark COP' at CITES this year - big vote could happen as early as tomorrow news.mongabay.com/2025/11/45-m...
45 more shark species up for CITES protections; tight vote expected
More than 180 nations gathering in Uzbekistan this week for the annual CITES conference could vote as early as Thursday on a proposal to regulate international trade in nearly 30 species of houndshark...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
'Another shark COP' at CITES this year - big vote could happen as early as tomorrow news.mongabay.com/2025/11/45-m...
Interview with the man who tranq'ed Arikomban, Kerala's chief forest veterinary officer - epic stuff www.newindianexpress.com/states/keral...
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Interview with the man who tranq'ed Arikomban, Kerala's chief forest veterinary officer - epic stuff www.newindianexpress.com/states/keral...
There's a wild graphic toward the top of this story of a GLOF — glacial lake outburst flood
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Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas Feed Lakes That Threaten Towns Below
Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
There's a wild graphic toward the top of this story of a GLOF — glacial lake outburst flood
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is really good on what's going on between Venezuela and the US and (gulp) prospects for regime change www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHx... via @insightcrime.org
Behind the Curtain: What Regime Change in Venezuela Could Mean for Organized Crime
YouTube video by InSight Crime
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November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is really good on what's going on between Venezuela and the US and (gulp) prospects for regime change www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHx... via @insightcrime.org
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Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:
Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:
October 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:
Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:
"extinction is not just the disappearance of beauty or ecological function; it is the deletion of irreplaceable data from Earth’s biological memory" news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...
Protecting Earth’s oldest data system: the case for biodiversity
Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original information network. In a commentary published on Mongabay, Al Mubarak, presi...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"extinction is not just the disappearance of beauty or ecological function; it is the deletion of irreplaceable data from Earth’s biological memory" news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...
Salient visual aids from @kuangkeng.bsky.social in our joint @ire.org #AccessFest25 panel presentation today
October 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Salient visual aids from @kuangkeng.bsky.social in our joint @ire.org #AccessFest25 panel presentation today
In urbanizing Singapore, insects and rats are migrating indoors to escape extreme heat - and the pest control industry is booming. Story by Robin Hicks for @mongabay.com
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As Singapore heats up, pests are seeking refuge indoors
SINGAPORE — Singapore’s reputation as one of the world’s cleanest cities is being put to the test by a surge in rodent and insect infestations that experts say is being fueled by climate change and he...
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October 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
In urbanizing Singapore, insects and rats are migrating indoors to escape extreme heat - and the pest control industry is booming. Story by Robin Hicks for @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/as-s...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/as-s...
Real nice up here in the Amvrakikos Gulf, which is absolutely teeming with rays
October 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Real nice up here in the Amvrakikos Gulf, which is absolutely teeming with rays
Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar especially smashed by deforestation in 2024 - new article by @geraldrflynn.bsky.social @mongabay.com
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news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...
Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s a...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar especially smashed by deforestation in 2024 - new article by @geraldrflynn.bsky.social @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...
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"I do think that it's evil. I don't know that it's necessary. This campaign is a test for that."
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Can You Win a Congressional Seat Without Social Media?
Carleigh Beriont is running for Congress as an “anti-social Democrat” and she thinks the party needs to abandon social media nationally also.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"I do think that it's evil. I don't know that it's necessary. This campaign is a test for that."
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It was only a matter of time before shark meat appeared in Indonesia's new $10b school meals program.
The story making the rounds is from Ketapang, but how common is shark meat across the program as a whole? Indonesia is a top shark-catching country... and what species are they serving? sc.mp/vi2fw
The story making the rounds is from Ketapang, but how common is shark meat across the program as a whole? Indonesia is a top shark-catching country... and what species are they serving? sc.mp/vi2fw
Is there something fishy about fried shark in Indonesia’s free meals programme?
Critics say shark, which officials call a part of the regional diet, should not be served to children as it is potentially high in mercury.
sc.mp
October 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It was only a matter of time before shark meat appeared in Indonesia's new $10b school meals program.
The story making the rounds is from Ketapang, but how common is shark meat across the program as a whole? Indonesia is a top shark-catching country... and what species are they serving? sc.mp/vi2fw
The story making the rounds is from Ketapang, but how common is shark meat across the program as a whole? Indonesia is a top shark-catching country... and what species are they serving? sc.mp/vi2fw
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Reflection on my friendship with Jane: www.butlernature.com/2025/10/02/w...
What Jane Goodall showed me about hope
I find it hard to believe Jane Goodall is gone. She was more than an icon to me. She was a friend, a mentor, and someone whose presence—whether with presidents, students, or my own children—felt like ...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reflection on my friendship with Jane: www.butlernature.com/2025/10/02/w...
Spent months building a giant database of public procurements of shark meat in Brazil - here's how we did it news.mongabay.com/2025/09/how-...
How we probed a maze of websites to tally Brazilian government shark meat orders
Mongabay recently published an investigation revealing widespread Brazilian government purchases of shark meat to feed schoolchildren, hospital patients, prisoners and more. The series has generated p...
news.mongabay.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Spent months building a giant database of public procurements of shark meat in Brazil - here's how we did it news.mongabay.com/2025/09/how-...
shark ("tope") on the menu at a random restaurant by my hotel in athens
September 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
shark ("tope") on the menu at a random restaurant by my hotel in athens
“Mongabay has tended to fly under the radar. We’ve focused on the journalism rather than promoting ourselves, so this recognition is especially meaningful — and it reflects the contributions of everyone involved,” Bulter said. news.mongabay.com/short-articl... @mongabay.com
Mongabay founder Rhett Butler named to Forbes Sustainability Leaders List
Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay founder and CEO, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders List, which honors 50 global leaders working to combat the climate crisis. “Mongabay has tended to f...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“Mongabay has tended to fly under the radar. We’ve focused on the journalism rather than promoting ourselves, so this recognition is especially meaningful — and it reflects the contributions of everyone involved,” Bulter said. news.mongabay.com/short-articl... @mongabay.com
Pet sharks are trending, but pro aquarists say keeping them is very difficult to do ethically and often ends up harming the sharks. New @mongabay.com feature by Hallie Lieberman
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Pet sharks have become cool, but is owning them ethical?
When Laurie was a kid, she had recurrent nightmares that featured her getting eaten by a shark. Decades later, Laurie goes to sleep next to them (or at least in the same house). She’s the proud owner ...
news.mongabay.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Pet sharks are trending, but pro aquarists say keeping them is very difficult to do ethically and often ends up harming the sharks. New @mongabay.com feature by Hallie Lieberman
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/pet-...
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/pet-...
Reposted by Philip Jacobson
New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
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Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin
Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Latest article in our Brazil shark meat series
A Brazilian lawmaker said he would call for a parliamentary hearing after Mongabay’s shark meat investigation.
Experts say the uncovered public tenders show greater extinction risk for sharks and urging stronger global protection.
Industry groups called Mongabay’s investigation “alarmist."
Experts say the uncovered public tenders show greater extinction risk for sharks and urging stronger global protection.
Industry groups called Mongabay’s investigation “alarmist."
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate
Endangered shark meat and heavy metals found in Brazil’s public food trigger a reckoning.
news.mongabay.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Latest article in our Brazil shark meat series
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August 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Reposted by Philip Jacobson
I guess it'd been touch and go for a while but terrible news that The Projector is closing in Singapore. (And this text is a great eulogy by Kirsten.) So many of these kinds of stories recently, of the arts ravaged by cuts, spaces shut down, in Singapore, Finland, Berlin...
A newsletter special on the sudden closure of The Projector, a beloved independent cinema in Singapore that provided space for many arts and civil society events that wouldn't have found a venue anywhere else in the city.
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www.wethecitizens.net/this-city-wo...
This city won’t let us live
Thoughts on the closure of The Projector, an independent cinema that was about so much more than movies.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I guess it'd been touch and go for a while but terrible news that The Projector is closing in Singapore. (And this text is a great eulogy by Kirsten.) So many of these kinds of stories recently, of the arts ravaged by cuts, spaces shut down, in Singapore, Finland, Berlin...
São Paulo's biggest newspaper ran a version of our article showing that Brazilian government agencies are bulk-buying shark meat for schools, hospitals, prisons and other public institutions
August 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
São Paulo's biggest newspaper ran a version of our article showing that Brazilian government agencies are bulk-buying shark meat for schools, hospitals, prisons and other public institutions
Reposted by Philip Jacobson
Brazil is serving shark meat in thousands of schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions, raising serious concerns.
A report by #ORN Fellow @philjaco.bsky.social, #RIN Fellow @bykarlamendes.bsky.social, and Pulitzer Center's @kuangkeng.bsky.social for @mongabay.com.
👉 bit.ly/40EuQ6E
A report by #ORN Fellow @philjaco.bsky.social, #RIN Fellow @bykarlamendes.bsky.social, and Pulitzer Center's @kuangkeng.bsky.social for @mongabay.com.
👉 bit.ly/40EuQ6E
That ‘Fish’ on the Menu? In Brazil’s Schools and Prisons, It’s Often Shark
Brazil, the world’s top importer of shark meat, is feeding much of it to preschoolers, hospital patients, military staff, public workers and more via government procurements, Mongabay has found. This....
pulitzercenter.org
July 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Brazil is serving shark meat in thousands of schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions, raising serious concerns.
A report by #ORN Fellow @philjaco.bsky.social, #RIN Fellow @bykarlamendes.bsky.social, and Pulitzer Center's @kuangkeng.bsky.social for @mongabay.com.
👉 bit.ly/40EuQ6E
A report by #ORN Fellow @philjaco.bsky.social, #RIN Fellow @bykarlamendes.bsky.social, and Pulitzer Center's @kuangkeng.bsky.social for @mongabay.com.
👉 bit.ly/40EuQ6E
Shatner on his trip to space variety.com/2022/tv/news...
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Shatner on his trip to space variety.com/2022/tv/news...
Conservation disrupted news.mongabay.com/2025/02/acro...
Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts
Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and freeze foreign aid, as groups large and small scramble to fill sudden funding ...
news.mongabay.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Conservation disrupted news.mongabay.com/2025/02/acro...