Excited and honored to be a finalist in the Walkley Foundation Mid-Year Media Prizes for 2025 Freelance of the Year. The nominated stories are for a body of work titled “Fighting for the future”: The people at the front line of a changing planet’. They ran in Nature, Yale Environment 360 and The Monthly magazine. … Continue reading
We’ve heard plenty about climate tipping points in the atmosphere, over landscapes and in the oceans. In my latest reporting project, published in the April edition of The Monthly, I take a deep dive into the wildly unpredictable world of human responses – the moments that tip ordinary people from the sidelines into frontline protests, … Continue reading
It’s two years since I climbed into a dinghy with Yolarnie Amepou to visit some of the communities in the Kikori delta PNG where she advocates for humans and other creatures grappling with fast rising seas, climate devastation & the fallout of an exploding fishery. Since then, I’ve taken a deep dive into the mysterious … Continue reading
A while back I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days with the awesome Yolarnie Amepou – zoologist, turtle mama and tireless activist for threatened humans and non-humans – as she went about her business in the Kikori Delta, Papua New Guinea. I’ve previously written about what she showed me of how rising … Continue reading
Excited to find my story for The Monthly, “The Totten Hots Up”, has been nominated for the Melbourne Press Club 2017 Quill for Feature Writing. Congrats to my fellow nominees – Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty (Fairfax), Margaret Burin (ABC), and Emily Woods (The Sunday Age). Continue reading
“Find a nice, self-sufficient hilltop and fortify it.” – John Wyndham, ‘The Kraken Wakes’. My article in the latest edition of The Monthly – delving into the fast-flowing science of glacial melt, ice dynamics, warming oceans, and sea level rise. This piece has not been unlocked from behind the paywall: Link here. Continue reading
What a buzz to find my work alongside pieces by the likes of Garner and Flanagan in this collection, published by BlackInc and out today. Editor Geordie Williamson says some lovely things about the very grim piece chosen for this anthology, “Grave Barrier Reef”, describing it as “balanced, finely-grained reportage … a monument of rational … Continue reading
My story on the sacking by CSIRO of one of the world’s top climate scientists coincides with some just published science which mades the sea levels discussed here look deeply conservative (In the Washington Post here). It all again underlines how desperately we need this expertise, and the continued collection & analysis of long-haul, boring, … Continue reading
‘We were diving in dissolving reef … it was like diving in ectoplasm. It was awful’ – Prof Justin Marshall. In the June edition of The Monthly I have a long piece on the devastating coral bleaching now playing out on the Great Barrier Reef. At the same time as news emerges that the Australian … Continue reading
My report for Yale Environment 360: A sophisticated and challenging experiment in Antarctica is the latest effort to study ocean acidification in the polar regions, where frigid waters are expected to feel the ecological impacts of acidic conditions hard, fast and soon. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/scientists_focus_on_polar_waters_as_threat_of_acidification_grows/2752/ Continue reading
Notebook & Narrative by Jo Chandler 