Tess McClure

Iran: Tsunami of Arbitrary Arrests, Enforced Disappearances Iran’s authorities have waged a brutal campaign to terrorize the population through mass arbitrary detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances in the aftermath countrywide massacres of protesters...

“Do not forget the detainees… Be our voice or they will eliminate us all”

Plea for help should be heard by any EU official working on #Iran

@eudiplomacy.bsky.social should do all it can to address death penalty risks & support universal jurisdiction to fight impunity

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Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’

Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died - after years of attacking the data as ‘Hamas propaganda’
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‘I wondered if I would be a coward or not’: five Ukrainian men on how war has changed them Russia’s invasion forced Ukrainian men of all ages to the frontlines, most with no experience of combat. Tracy McVeigh spoke to five soldiers about how life in the army transformed them and their rela...

‘I wondered if I would be a coward or not’: five men speak about how being sent to war changed their sense of self, views on masculinity, relationships with women, priorities www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex

alarming report from @aishadown.bsky.social that iranian messaging app Gap has been passing data to the authorities www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll? Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

It's clear an atrocity has been unfolding in Iran, under cover of an Internet blackout.
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Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters

"I'm a surgeon in #Iran. This this is the horror I've witnessed in the crackdown" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse

Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com

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The Guardian Long Read A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25

Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

This is a super interesting study of bird migration, and follows 3 specific birds on their journeys. Very beautifully visualised also.

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A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference? The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?
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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

a bleak fable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

beautiful photographs by Zed Nelson, on nature as spectacle: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian view on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide | Editorial Editorial: Condemnation is rightly growing. But until concrete action is taken, western allies will remain complicit with these horrifying crimes

The Guardian editorial board: "on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong? With forests under pressure from drought, heat, disease and deer, a study has found fewer trees across a range of species surviving to maturity. But scientists say there is still hope

This is very, very, scary news 😞

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‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: @phoebeweston.bsky.social on how the UK’s most beloved, iconic landscapes became biodiversity deserts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb? Two years after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in Ukraine, nature has returned in abundance to the drained land in a ‘big natural experiment’ – but it could be lost as quickly as it appeared

in Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir, a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb? the first of a new series we're launching, 'the aftermath', which looks at the complexity of how nature responds to transformation and catastrophe www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

The web of life, evolved over countless aeons, being torn apart in our time.
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The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère The long read: Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter,...

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨

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!!!!! the return

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...

Women and girls in Tigray were gang raped by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers. Nail clippers, rusted screws and other objects were shoved up their vaginas with the intention of making them infertile.

A horrific but must-read story by
@ximenaborrazas.bsky.social and @tessairini.bsky.social

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...

total horror is being inflicted on the women of tigray. here we document the attempts by soldiers to destroy their fertility, and their hopes for justice as most of the world looks away www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @ximenaborrazas.bsky.social

The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers. "The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

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lots of great reporting and editing jobs going at the guardian in the US at the moment - a whole team of enterprise & investigative political reporters/editor, plus newsletters, arts editors, podcasting workforus.theguardian.com/search-jobs-... #journalismjobs #journojobs

‘This is my mission, my destiny’: a treacherous Amazon journey in the footsteps of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira Three years after the deaths of the British journalist and Brazilian activist, the Guardian joined the Indigenous peoples continuing their dangerous and often gruelling work to protect the rainforest

“To mark the anniversary of the killings of Dom & Bruno, the Guardian – which is today launching a major investigative podcast series about the men called Missing in the Amazon – joined a gruelling week-long expedition in the rainforest”
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

i wrote about the incredible die-offs that we are now seeing around the world in 'protected' places far from human touch - and about the people who are bearing witness to them www.theguardian.com/environment/...