As journalists fight over whether to stay or leave Xitter: I have decided to keep a presence here, though I've practically stopped tweeting since the war in Gaza. Editors, collaborators & contacts, my portfolio is here: 🇬🇧 https://t.co/zEzT7e37f3 🇫🇷

Le 9 février 2025 entrera dans l'histoire comme le jour où nous avons arrêté de faire semblant de chercher le frein, pour appuyer ouvertement sur l'accélérateur. #sommetIA

110 milliards, c'est plus que ce que nous avions promis aux pays "du Sud" pour les aider à s'adapter aux effets du changement climatique en 2010 à Copenhague. Promesse non tenue pendant des années.

Je résume: on a trouvé 110 milliards à investir dans de nouveaux giga-projets énergivores, gourmands en eau, en minéraux, etc.... pile au moment où on est censé réduire drastiquement notre consommation d'énergie pour sauver le climat. #SommetIA

Que se passe-t-il en #Syrie depuis la chute de Bachar al-Assad dans la région autonome du nord-est, où résident la plupart des kurdes du pays? Décryptage avec @solin_amin pour @Reporterre 👇 https://t.co/79VqFDZGEZ

For @Turkeyrecap, @MouterW and I dive into the world's #1 destination for used European mega-ships: the shores of Aliağa, Turkey 🇹🇷 , whose workers are fighting for recognition and compensation of occupational diseases linked to asbestos exposure 👇

Aliağa hosts the fourth-largest ship dismantling area in the world. It’s also the most popular destination for EU vessels. Despite this, Aliağa remains marred by a lack of safety standards and poor labor conditions @MouterW and @lyse_mauvais report: https://t.co/Poamljcn7i

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag @boell_eu @DeSmog @Josh_Gabbatiss @veradelejahotko @Sevilaysaraclar @journalismfund @MouterW In 2025, I look forward to more of exactly the same. Here's to a ton of crossborder stories with great partners, to local stories shared with global audiences, to digging up underlooked environmental issues and connecting the dots between different sides of the Mediterranean ⭐️

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag @boell_eu @DeSmog @Josh_Gabbatiss @veradelejahotko @Sevilaysaraclar @journalismfund Overall, 2024 has been exceptionnally diverse and collaborative. My last freelance story this year was written from France and Turkey for @MongabayOrg with @MouterW,. We look at how European regulations impact the toxic shipbreaking industry in Turkey: https://t.co/nDnDfpsZA4

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag @boell_eu @DeSmog @Josh_Gabbatiss @veradelejahotko @Sevilaysaraclar @journalismfund One of the joys of being back in France is that I am now closer than ever to local environmental battles. This story, which takes place very close to my current home, was one of my favorite assignments of 2024: https://t.co/70NW8027eu

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag @boell_eu @DeSmog @Josh_Gabbatiss @veradelejahotko @Sevilaysaraclar @journalismfund Starting in the fall, I took a job at a local newspapers in the southern French Alps and started closing in on more local environmental issues, including the impact of global warming on glaciers & the ski industry. ⛷️

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag @boell_eu @DeSmog @Josh_Gabbatiss @veradelejahotko @Sevilaysaraclar @journalismfund In parallel, I was involved in another crossborder project supported by @journalismfund, investigating the upcoming 2026 & 2030 Olympics in the Italian & French Alps 🗻, and their environmental footprint: https://t.co/CpbeB1rKhj

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag @boell_eu @DeSmog Throughout the summer and fall, I worked with @Josh_Gabbatiss, @veradelejahotko, @Sevilaysaraclar & others on investigating European climate funds for developing countries, with support from @journalismfund : https://t.co/wTZGTd2MMp

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag With a grant from @boell_eu, I spent months investigating Saudi Arabia's "green" giga-project Neom and European companies' involvement in this senseless project. Thanks @DeSmog for publishing a large chunk of it. https://t.co/by0pBpuy15

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin @UntoldMag Though I couldn't enter Gaza from Egypt, I also tried to articulate how Israel war senselessly cruel strategy against the Palestinian enclave would ruin the land, durably poison the environment, and punish Gazans for generations to come: https://t.co/HBgSwnd18B

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd @solin_amin In northwestern Syria this time, @AlkarhAbd and I wrote about widespread deforestation during the war. Thanks @UntoldMag for shedding light on this environmental tragedy in Syria's most forested regions: https://t.co/a4n2SSXyEj

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon @MongabayOrg @AlkarhAbd Keeping an eye on Syria, @solin_amin and I also tried to keep Turkey's devastating war against Syrian Kurds in the news, looking at the toxic fallout of illegal, targeted Turkish airstrikes on energy & water infrastructure: https://t.co/dOBV6pKIY7

@nadaarafat @AlexGSimon For @MongabayOrg, @AlkarhAbd and I looked at how invasive water hyacinths clogged waterways and destroyed livelihoods in northern Syria and in Egypt's Nile Delta: https://t.co/mWj5M9O4xC

From Jan to March, I spent three months in Egypt, covering, among other things, the slow death of the Nile. Fieldwork with @nadaarafat, penned by @AlexGSimon, took us around a breadbasket plagued by rampant pollution and state neglect: https://t.co/I6SyKf5aYh

I started 2024 in my home country, France, after a 5000km cycling journey back from my former home in northern Iraq 🚴‍♀️ Here's to a year of environmental reporting around the Mediterranean and to the colleagues, friends and editors who made it possible🧵🍃

I've only held 2 stable jobs in my life, and in both of them the company insisted on calling itself a "family". Please don't. It's not 1950 anymore, employees are not children and you can't morally abuse them as if they were. (Not that you should abuse your kids anyway.)