Rosa Furneaux

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Rosa Furneaux || Writer & Photojournalist Rosa Furneaux | Writer & Photojournalist

I’ll be on the lookout for staff roles, but I’m open to freelance investigative-adjacent and feature reporting work. If you’re looking for a collaborator, or just want to connect, I’d love to hear from you! My DMs are open, or you can find other contact details here: rosafurneaux.com

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I’m deeply committed to public interest, accountability journalism, and always keen to utilise my background in business, science and health reporting. I’m particularly interested in investigative roles, but I’m open to freelance investigative-adjacent and feature reporting work!

I’m incredibly proud of the investigations I led and contributed to at SourceMaterial. Sad as I am that this chapter has come to an unexpected close, I’m gearing up for the opportunities that might lie ahead...

A hard post to start the new year: due to organisational changes at their funder, I've been laid off from my role as senior investigative reporter at @source-material.org. It’s been a privilege to work with such a talented and dedicated team on award-winning exposés across the climate beat

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation

this is a direct consequence of the decisions made by the US to slash foreign health aid. BUT many European countries (inc UK) have also cut aid.

Amy Middleman, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) a liaison representative to ACIP is saying HER study was misinterpreted in earlier presentation. ---- its clear that many of the presenters today don't have expertise to understand the data they are looking at and presented.

Hepatitis B is so infectious that babies need to be vaccinated within one day of birth.

Also, if you delay the birth dose, moms might not be able to get back to the clinic for it. The more you ask of parents, the harder you make it, the fewer kids get vaccinatd.

And beyond this — it is unethical on so many levels to run randomized placebo-controlled trials in infants. No child in a vaccine trial should be left unprotected and exposed to incurable disease when there is an effective therapeutic vaccine.

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

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...

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.

Repurposing a century-old vaccine offers a rare win-win for global health.

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.

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...

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!

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

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...

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

Wajã Xipai: I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? #Cop30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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.

'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-...

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

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

Our @source-material.org story, led by @lukewbarratt.bsky.social, is published today in collaboration with @theguardian.com.

You can read it in The Guardian here:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Instead, Amazon officials opted to use only the relatively smaller figure of primary use, 7.7 billion gallons, when calculating progress towards its target because of “reputational risk”, fearing bad publicity if the full scale of Amazon’s consumption was revealed, the document shows.

AWS, the company’s cloud computing division that oversees its data centres, noted that it would be harder to reach its internal target if its calculations included “secondary” use—water used in generating the electricity to power its data centres, according to the document.

In the leaked document, Amazon executives warned that transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping its projections confidential, even as they feared inviting accusations of a cover-up.

'Amazon hides its water consumption' was one hypothetical headline the authors warned of.

Amazon has never publicly disclosed how much water its giant server farms consume. But the company's data centres were projected to use 7.7 billion gallons of water a year by 2030, according to the leaked strategy memo, which was circulated within the company in 2022.

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.

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-...

Incredibly proud of our team at @source-material.org, who have been shortlisted in this year's @pressgazette.co.uk British Journalism Awards! 💫

🎉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

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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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.

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...

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

“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...

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