Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

I wrote this short piece about my call with Trump, and what it helped me to understand about how his administration works.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: I cold-called President Trump. Here’s what he told me about an oil tycoon and major donor. By @alexcuadros.bsky.social

1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

Belatedly posting this since apparently a lot of people are using Bluesky these days. I remain very excited to be joining the team: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

Alex Cuadros and Katie Worth Join ProPublica’s National Team

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Thrilled to be in such excellent company as a finalist for the California Book Award!

Commonwealth Club World Affairs@cwclub.bsky.social · last yr.

NONFICTION 1/2 When We Sold God’s Eye by @alexcuadros.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social Twelve Trees by Daniel Lewis @simonandschuster.bsky.social On The Move by @abrahm.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

I reviewed @alexcuadros.bsky.social's anti-Rousseau portrait of how one indigenous group entered the illegal diamond trade (for better or worse).

ArtReview@artreview.bsky.social · last yr.

‘When We Sold God’s Eye’ by Alex Cuadros is an unsentimental, vital report of how ‘civilised’ society disrupts Indigenous life artreview.com/when-we-sold...

I love that The Guardian found a Brazilian-Brit to narrate this excerpt of my book www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity – podcast

In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought overBy Alex Cuadros. R...

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My piece in the NYT today www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

Opinion | A Reminder on Valentine’s Day: That Diamond Might Not Be Conflict-Free (Gift Article)

Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.

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I got the privilege of writing some text to accompany these beautiful photos by Musuk Nolte www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Shipwrecked in the Amazon

Photographs of the worst drought in the river basin’s recorded history

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The rampant deforestation of the Amazon has the potential to be one of the most devastating policy failures in human history. In his new book, alexcuadros.bsky.social enriches our understanding of why it’s so hard to arrest the damage. My review for @newrepublic.com t.co/GTzUCHAXXE

Excellent review of a brilliant new book by @alexcuadros.bsky.social on the improbable story of Brazil's Cinta Larga people on whose lands some of the world's richest deposits of diamonds were discovered in the mid-20th century. Gripping read.

Carl Hoffman@carlhoffman.bsky.social · 2y ago

What's it like to have your world invaded by an alien society? What happened when a smart, ambitious indigenous man in the Amazon sought economic success for his people? When We Sold God's Eye is powerful & revealing. My review in @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

Half way through @alexcuadros.bsky.social's forthcoming When We Sold God’s Eye. It is very good indeed, a picture of Brazil really, all the crime and beauty, but through indigenous eyes. A taster here: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity

The long read: In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought over

theguardian.com

An excerpt of my new book, out next week -- preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alex-...

When We Sold God's Eye

The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illeg...

hachettebookgroup.com

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity

Livro que Dom Phillips fazia ao ser morto foi concluído por amigos e sai em 2025 🎉🎉🎉 www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/walt...