Environment

Sustainability, Climate, and Human Rights

Environmental journalism is too often treated as a specialized beat, filed alongside science or weather, when it should sit at the center of how we cover politics, economics, and human rights. Reporting in this field has made one thing clear: environmental crises are rarely just environmental. They are questions of health, displacement, and power, of who bears the consequences, and who gets to be heard.

This section gathers my reporting on environmental issues around the world, each shaped by that connection between environment and power.

Environment & Human rights •

Women from the Amazon Audio/Video Podcast

This episode traces the story of the Munduruku, an Indigenous community on Brazil's Tapajós River, whose cosmology holds a strong connection to nature. Today, illegal gold mining has poisoned their waters with mercury, turning an act of ancestral care into a source of sickness, miscarriage, and loss. I spoke with Munduruku filmmaker Ricelia, human rights researcher Sarah Kerremans, and mercury-cycle expert Professor Willy Baeyens (VUB) to trace that contamination from the Amazon basin to the Atlantic. At its center, this episode is a portrait of Amazon women: the first to bear environmental harm, and the first to lead the fight against it.
Climate/ News video •

Nuclear Energy Protest | News Video

After the 2026 Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris, where Ursula von der Leyen and other leaders pushed for a bigger role for nuclear energy in Europe's future, activists gathered in Brussels to protest, fifteen years after the Fukushima disaster. Organizations from across the continent joined the demonstration, warning that expanding nuclear power could bring new safety risks. Organizer Marc Alexander spoke on behalf of the community, expressing concerns about the continued use of nuclear energy.
Co-produced with Ella Pauwels.


Upcoming in Environment...

Source: "The Price of Gold: The Impacts of Illegal Mining on Indigenous Communities in Venezuela and Brazil," Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Illegal Gold Mining in Venezuela: Investigative Journalism

In parts of Venezuela, armed groups control vast stretches of land tied to illegal mining, restricting access. The result is a region where environmental destruction and human suffering unfold largely out of view, and where the scale of the damage is difficult to verify precisely because so few outsiders can reach it.

Keep an eye on my upcoming projects on this topic.

Articles

Photo: Wietse Jongsma / Unsplash
Explainer, Australia's Indigenous Peoples •

Country Under Threat: Mining, Fracking, and the Fight for Indigenous Heritage Law in Australia

In Australia, Country represents the living connection between land, water, culture, and identity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Today, these inherited values are threatened by mining and fracking. I explore the gap between Australia’s legal protections and what Traditional Owners actually face on the ground.
Photo: Eduardo Saavedra Altuve / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), Orinoco River, Bolívar State, Venezuela.
Explainer, Venezuela Illegal Gold mining •

Orinoco Mining Arc: Illegal Mining and Structural Violence

The Orinoco Mining Arc represents one of the richest regions in mineral resources in the world, with gold, diamonds, coltan, iron, and bauxite among its most notable resources. Created in 2016 to diversify Venezuela's economy, it has instead become the epicenter of illegal gold mining, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses.