Pete Guest
@peterguest.bsky.social
Journalist: As seen in Bloomberg, Wired, Businessweek, The Economist 1843, MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, etc. Occasional photographer. Bona fides: www.peterguest.co
Climate change is making “fire weather” more common, and more extreme
The Age of Unstoppable Wildfires Has Reached Europe
Climate change means giant fires of the kind that ripped across France and Spain are becoming common, with potentially dire consequences for Europe’s economies.
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Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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NEW: We dug through the files released by DoJ to track how Epstein’s sex-trafficking network worked in practice. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... w/ @peterguest.bsky.social @jeffykao.bsky.social Christopher Cannon and @maxharlow.bsky.social
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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Epstein's Shadow Network: My colleagues and I at Bloomberg examined thousands of flight records, emails, messages and documents to build a picture of the pedophile financier's recruitment and trafficking operation. origin.www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
origin.www.bloomberg.com
The Iran war has delivered a shock to energy markets that’s driving Asian and European countries to move faster toward renewables. Read more: bloom.bg/4uVYNw6 📷: Carlotta Cardana
In Switzerland's Alpine heartlands a warming climate is destabilising the landscape, melting ice, thawing out permafrost and increasing the risk of catastrophic events, leaving some in the country to question whether life in the mountains is becoming unaffordable. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Swiss Alps Reckon With the Threat of Collapsing Glaciers
“We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland question whether the danger is worth it.
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Since the Enhanced Games is now kicking off, here's a piece I wrote for Bloomberg Weekend last year about its political and ideological underpinnings, and why shrugging it off as a gimmick might be underplaying how dangerous it is.
The ‘Enhanced Games’ Is the Ultimate MAGA Athletic Competition
A sports startup that allows performance-enhancing drugs is brash, confrontational, and perhaps the perfect competition for the era of Trump.
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New Bloomberg satellite data analysis reveals the scale of US-Israeli strike damage and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out-war. See More in the Big Take: bloom.bg/4tTQ508 📷️: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
Within the fevered coverage of Russia's growing threat in Europe, it's easy to forget that places on the map are home to real communities. Bloomberg's Borderlands project tries to understand these complex places, and the tension that they're under. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Russia’s Threats Put Europe’s Borderlands on Edge
The Baltic countries are fortifying their frontier regions as a deterrent to Russian aggression. Close to the border, communities now have to reckon with the price of peace.
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Information & AI Senior Editor @joannaskao.bsky.social selected @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social & @peterguest.bsky.social's story "Inside a Romance Scam Compound—and How People Get Tricked Into Being There,” published in @techreviewjp.bsky.social, as her #PulitzerStaffPicks. 👉 bit.ly/YIStories25
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
Freed by Trump, a $200 Million Fraudster Started a New Scam
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
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Populists and the far-right see cultural institutions as a way to embed their narratives into public life; in Lithuania, artists are taking a stand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A Political Crisis Pits Lithuanian Artists Against the Populists
Sodas 2123 used to be a boarding school for delinquent children before it was left to ruin and squatters. Five years ago, it was taken over by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and...
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European officials believe that Russia is escalating its hybrid campaign against Europe. Its latest tactic includes seeding a humanitarian crisis in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Read more: bloom.bg/4npsMIN 📷️: Picture Alliance
1.🧵We are thrilled to announce New Lines has won the Online News Award in the topical reporting on climate change category for our collaboration with @thegeckoproject.org. “Dust Money,” looks at Indonesia's green transition and labor abuses around nickel mining awards.journalists.org/winners/2025/
2025 Online Journalism Awards
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Last night, Dust Money won in its category at the Online Journalism Awards, after winning a Webby earlier in the year. This is Diana, a Bajau community leader in Sulawesi, who gave us the name for the project. The judges said nice things here: awards.journalists.org/entries/dust...
Exclusive: A cache of 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News offers a raw look into the world of the disgraced financier and sex offender — and reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s secrets
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
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Dust Money, the Gecko Project x New Lines project that used a road trip through the mines, smelters and communities of Sulawesi to chart the human and environmental impacts of the nickel business, is a finalist in the Online Journalism Awards. awards.journalists.org/entries/dust...
Dust Money - Online Journalism Awards
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Ukraine has faced three years of attacks on its energy grid by Russia. And yet, it's mostly kept the lights on, building under fire a new kind of electricity network, one that's more resilient -- and more sustainable -- than what was there before. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Ukraine Rebuilds Its Energy Grid With Lessons From the Frontline
Ukraine has rebuilt an energy grid that’s more resilient — and greener — than what it had before Russia’s invasion.
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Officially, one of the best things on the internet. Dust Money, the @thegeckoproject.org / @newlinesmag.bsky.social collaboration is an honoree in multimedia storytelling in this year's Webbys. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...
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2. 🧵 Our joint investigation with @thegeckoproject.org on Indonesia’s nickel production received a webby honoree nomination for Best Multimedia Storytelling. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...
Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...
newlinesmag.com
Very sad to hear that Gwen Robinson passed away in Bangkok. A true legend among foreign correspondents, a relentless journalist with a deep love of the craft and her colleagues. Like a lot of journalists in Asia, I owe Gwen a huge debt for opening doors and backing my craziest reporting ideas.
Survivors have spoken to us to reveal how criminal syndicates use Big Tech to recruit and trap people into operating “pig butchering” scams—and what life is like once you're been ensnared. Fantastic new story this morning. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1...
Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there
Survivors reveal how criminal syndicates use Big Tech to recruit and trap people into operating “pig butchering” scams—and then use the same platforms to steal billions of dollars from targets all ove...
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New film from our recent investigation: We travelled 2,000km through Indonesia’s nickel frontiers investigating how a green, battery-powered future is being achieved through increasingly authoritarian means. Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
The dark side of Indonesia’s green metals obsession | Dust Money
YouTube video by The Gecko Project
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Devastating longread from @thegeckoproject.org & @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the landscapes & communities of Sulawesi entrained in rapacious forest-stripping, village-gobbling, sea-smothering nickel extraction, pollution from coal-fired smelters, dangerous industry conditions & social conflict
Dust Money
Indonesia is in the middle of a massive rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. Years into the boom, the costs of its obsession with the mineral are mounting.
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