Mélanie Gouby
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
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Mélanie Gouby
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
· Apr 10
What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬
INTERACTIVE - How to make a forest reappear?
We turned our National Geographic story into an interactive journey at the heart of the rainforest to show you how African scientists are putting the Congo Basin back on the map 🌱🌍
www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/gra...
We turned our National Geographic story into an interactive journey at the heart of the rainforest to show you how African scientists are putting the Congo Basin back on the map 🌱🌍
www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/gra...
May 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
INTERACTIVE - How to make a forest reappear?
We turned our National Geographic story into an interactive journey at the heart of the rainforest to show you how African scientists are putting the Congo Basin back on the map 🌱🌍
www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/gra...
We turned our National Geographic story into an interactive journey at the heart of the rainforest to show you how African scientists are putting the Congo Basin back on the map 🌱🌍
www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/gra...
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It's not all bad news....
Great article by @melaniegouby.bsky.social on the Congolese scientists working to save the rainforest.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Great article by @melaniegouby.bsky.social on the Congolese scientists working to save the rainforest.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
April 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It's not all bad news....
Great article by @melaniegouby.bsky.social on the Congolese scientists working to save the rainforest.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Great article by @melaniegouby.bsky.social on the Congolese scientists working to save the rainforest.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
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Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest
The Congo Basin has been largely invisible to climate science. A new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
The Congo Basin has been largely invisible to climate science. A new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest
The Congo Basin has been largely invisible to climate science. A new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
The Congo Basin has been largely invisible to climate science. A new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
@melaniegouby.bsky.social
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"It's the world's most critical rainforest, and you probably can't name it"
Excellent piece by @melaniegouby.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social on the new generation of Central African researchers revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Excellent piece by @melaniegouby.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social on the new generation of Central African researchers revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
It's the world's most critical rainforest—and you probably can't name it
For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"It's the world's most critical rainforest, and you probably can't name it"
Excellent piece by @melaniegouby.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social on the new generation of Central African researchers revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Excellent piece by @melaniegouby.bsky.social @nationalgeographic.bsky.social on the new generation of Central African researchers revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬
April 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬
#aidmath #USAID estimates the US makes $231 in US-manufactured goods and services exports for every $1 spent on development projects in emerging markets.
Between 2005 - 2015, nearly 2/3 of growth in US goods exports was to USAID partners – it helped pull the US out of recession.
Between 2005 - 2015, nearly 2/3 of growth in US goods exports was to USAID partners – it helped pull the US out of recession.
February 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#GOMA At least 900 bodies were recovered from the streets - not incl. bodies already in morgues + bodies buried quickly in compounds during the several days of fighting. Real death toll will be several 100s higher. It's the most intense fighting Goma ever saw say many inhabitants
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#GOMA At least 900 bodies were recovered from the streets - not incl. bodies already in morgues + bodies buried quickly in compounds during the several days of fighting. Real death toll will be several 100s higher. It's the most intense fighting Goma ever saw say many inhabitants
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🔴#RDC Corneille #Nangaa à #Goma parlant de Félix #Tshisekedi : "Il n'a jamais gagné l'élection. Si j'ai créé le monstre, je pense qu'il m'appartient de défaire le monstre. Si j'ai mis le Congo dans la m.... il m'appartient de régler le problème."
January 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🔴#RDC Corneille #Nangaa à #Goma parlant de Félix #Tshisekedi : "Il n'a jamais gagné l'élection. Si j'ai créé le monstre, je pense qu'il m'appartient de défaire le monstre. Si j'ai mis le Congo dans la m.... il m'appartient de régler le problème."
Thanks @skynewss.bsky.social for having me last night on The World to talk about the crisis in #Goma and the role of Rwanda in the conflict news.sky.com/video/in-ful...
In full: Wednesday's The World
Jonathan Samuels scrutinises the latest international news and hears from the big names shaping the global outlook.
news.sky.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thanks @skynewss.bsky.social for having me last night on The World to talk about the crisis in #Goma and the role of Rwanda in the conflict news.sky.com/video/in-ful...
#M23 says it has now full control of the airport after nearly 48h of heavy fighting - the airport also the site of a major
@MONUSCO base. There are still pockets of resistance across town but the M23/RDF seem to have near complete control over #Goma
@MONUSCO base. There are still pockets of resistance across town but the M23/RDF seem to have near complete control over #Goma
#Goma fighting is still ongoing this afternoon according to several sources who confirm at least one FARDC unit + Wazalendo are refusing to stand down. Fighting around the airport, Mount Goma and near the lake. #M23 has already announced controlling the city.
Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in #GOMA and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again...
January 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
#Goma fighting is still ongoing this afternoon according to several sources who confirm at least one FARDC unit + Wazalendo are refusing to stand down. Fighting around the airport, Mount Goma and near the lake. #M23 has already announced controlling the city.
Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in #GOMA and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again...
January 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in #GOMA and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again...
The #M23/RDF have now taken Sake, a strategic small town just 25 kms from Goma. Experts have dismissed Goma as a potential target so far, but this conflict has taken proportions no one foresaw even 6 months ago. #DRC
The #M23 rebels and Rwandan forces took Minova today, a key town 40 kilometers of Goma. Until now, it was assumed #Rwanda would stay clear of Goma: taking the city in 2012 had been a major strategic mistake, leading to the rebellion's demise. This may no longer be true. #DRCconflict
January 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in #GOMA and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again...
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Field workers in California stay home as immigration raids hit farms - a citrus growers group said 75% of the workforce didn't show up one day this week
“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation”
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation”
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country
‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.
calmatters.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Field workers in California stay home as immigration raids hit farms - a citrus growers group said 75% of the workforce didn't show up one day this week
“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation”
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation”
calmatters.org/economy/2025...
The #M23/RDF have now taken Sake, a strategic small town just 25 kms from Goma. Experts have dismissed Goma as a potential target so far, but this conflict has taken proportions no one foresaw even 6 months ago. #DRC
The #M23 rebels and Rwandan forces took Minova today, a key town 40 kilometers of Goma. Until now, it was assumed #Rwanda would stay clear of Goma: taking the city in 2012 had been a major strategic mistake, leading to the rebellion's demise. This may no longer be true. #DRCconflict
January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The #M23 rebels and Rwandan forces took Minova today, a key town 40 kilometers of Goma. Until now, it was assumed #Rwanda would stay clear of Goma: taking the city in 2012 had been a major strategic mistake, leading to the rebellion's demise. This may no longer be true. #DRCconflict
January 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The #M23 rebels and Rwandan forces took Minova today, a key town 40 kilometers of Goma. Until now, it was assumed #Rwanda would stay clear of Goma: taking the city in 2012 had been a major strategic mistake, leading to the rebellion's demise. This may no longer be true. #DRCconflict
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Fresh publication 📰
On how Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – through institutionalised tactics by the government that left them poor and thus relocatable.
theconversation.com/tanzanias-ma...
On how Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – through institutionalised tactics by the government that left them poor and thus relocatable.
theconversation.com/tanzanias-ma...
Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – the tactics the government uses
Tanzania is using conservation as a pretext for land grabs and human rights violations.
theconversation.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Fresh publication 📰
On how Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – through institutionalised tactics by the government that left them poor and thus relocatable.
theconversation.com/tanzanias-ma...
On how Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – through institutionalised tactics by the government that left them poor and thus relocatable.
theconversation.com/tanzanias-ma...
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"Netanyahu delays cabinet vote on Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal and hostage release" This was entirely predictable. It's been cost-free for him to resist ending the war because Washington imposes no costs. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Live briefing: Netanyahu delays cabinet vote on Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal and hostage release
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of “reneging” on parts of the deal, under which Israel would withdraw from some areas of Gaza and obtain the return of hostages.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Netanyahu delays cabinet vote on Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal and hostage release" This was entirely predictable. It's been cost-free for him to resist ending the war because Washington imposes no costs. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for the devastating California fires www.latimes.com/environment/... @weatherwest.bsky.social
Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for devastating California fires
Research shows rapid shifts between wet and dry extremes are increasing. Scientists say this 'hydroclimate whiplash' contributed to California's devastating fires.
www.latimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for the devastating California fires www.latimes.com/environment/... @weatherwest.bsky.social
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#M23's incursions impact mineral pillage in eastern #CongoK. After Rubaya fell, a UN report found minerals were smuggled through Rwanda, noting a 50% increase in #Rwanda's #coltan exports in 2023.
Fears for Goma grow as M23 continues gains in North Kivu
Rebel fighters have taken control of a strategic town in the east of the country, adding to the armed group’s recent advances in the region
africa-conf.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?
Baby born on crowded small boat crossing from Africa to Canary Islands
Baby born on crowded small boat crossing from Africa to Canary Islands
The boy and his mother as well as dozens of others were rescued off the coast of Lanzarote, Spain
A baby boy has been born on a small, crowded boat carrying 60 people on the deadly Atlantic migration route from Africa to the Canary Islands.
The boat was…
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?
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for those able, grassroots civil society and mutual aid groups at the frontlines of relief efforts in the parts of Sudan most impacted by state violence, are accepting donations via the Sudan Solidarity Collective here:
sudansolidarity.com
sudansolidarity.com
Sudan Solidarity Collective
sudansolidarity.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
for those able, grassroots civil society and mutual aid groups at the frontlines of relief efforts in the parts of Sudan most impacted by state violence, are accepting donations via the Sudan Solidarity Collective here:
sudansolidarity.com
sudansolidarity.com
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"Blinken said that the state department had conducted months of deliberation...Just days earlier, Blinken had dismissed suggestions that events in Gaza constituted genocide, responding: “No, it’s not” in an interview with the New York Times."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
US declares Sudan’s paramilitary forces have committed genocide during civil war
Blinken details pattern of ethnic violence in which RSF has killed civilians and blocked access to supplies
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Blinken said that the state department had conducted months of deliberation...Just days earlier, Blinken had dismissed suggestions that events in Gaza constituted genocide, responding: “No, it’s not” in an interview with the New York Times."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
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In this 1997 profile, I quoted Jean Marie Le Pen asking me, "What do I have to do to not be racist? Marry a black woman? With AIDS, if possible?” He then wrote my editor that I botched his “joke" because he’d said “un noir”—a black man—not “une noire.”
Awful man.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Awful man.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
THE UNTHINKABLE
www.newyorker.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In this 1997 profile, I quoted Jean Marie Le Pen asking me, "What do I have to do to not be racist? Marry a black woman? With AIDS, if possible?” He then wrote my editor that I botched his “joke" because he’d said “un noir”—a black man—not “une noire.”
Awful man.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Awful man.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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The North Sea is a hard place to love, but what lies beneath is fascinating. My new story for @hakaimagazine.com is about prehistory, lost lands, climate change, and rising seas: a story of our past and our future hakaimagazine.com/features/con...
Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea | Hakai Magazine
New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.
hakaimagazine.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
The North Sea is a hard place to love, but what lies beneath is fascinating. My new story for @hakaimagazine.com is about prehistory, lost lands, climate change, and rising seas: a story of our past and our future hakaimagazine.com/features/con...