Tess McClure
@tessairini.bsky.social
editor, human rights & freedom @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/series/rights-and-freedom previously: nature and biodiversity
Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day
Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?
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Amazing the personal risks people will take to preserve archival material www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive
Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation
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Analysis by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself for @newlinesmag.bsky.social reveals that the U.S.-Israeli coalition has employed so-called double tap strikes, showing a callous disregard for civilians and a pattern of airstrikes seeking to inflict reckless harm on Iranians.
US-Israeli Attacks on Iran Show a Pattern of ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes
New Lines verified three cases in Tehran and Karaj where sites were hit multiple times, increasing the harm to civilians and first responders for little military advantage
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one month on from the Minab school bombing, we were able to tell the story of that day in detail, hour by hour, through the eyes of parents. this is what happened to zahra, sobhan, hanieh, arya - and so many others. @shahmeerbaloch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day
Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, three families desc...
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"What are memory, reconstruction, and the power of the image when the place is gone?" Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where 5,000+ were once held and tortured, reports @@baydoun.nl
Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center
The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site
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Using interviews, satellite imagery and atmospheric modelling, we reconstructed how smoke from strikes on oil infrastructure spread across Tehran. The plume extended across much of the city. Investigation by @baydoun.nl, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @wammezz.bsky.social, and myself.
The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital
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Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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"In the race to meet the demands of the energy transition, biodiversity hotspots such as Palawan in the Philippines are being increasingly mined for critical elements"❗ Vital reporting here from @tessairini.bsky.social on nickel mining in the Philippines: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The last frontier’: how red globules of nickel ore are suffocating an island’s precious wilderness
In the race to meet the demands of the energy transition, biodiversity hotspots such as Palawan in the Philippines are being increasingly mined for critical elements
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'Made in USA' and Department of Defense codes imprinted on weapons fragments used to make American Tomahawks and seen in photos by Iran near bombed school. Latest story w/ @trbrtc.bsky.social and @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
Fragments of U.S.-Made Missile Seen in Photos Taken by Iran Near Deadly School Strike
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A review by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself of post-strike videos, images, satellite imagery and mapping data shows that a civilian park hosting an EMS base in Shiraz was directly hit, killing at least 20 and raising questions about mistaken targeting.
Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20
Open-source evidence and satellite imagery show that the March 5 strike destroyed a first responders’ outpost in Zibashahr Park, leaving an identified military site 200 meters away untouched
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@chrisosieck.bsky.social hi Chris - could I send you a DM?
@ntabrizy.bsky.social hi Nilo, I'm an editor at the Guardian trying to get in touch - is it possible to DM you?
“Do not forget the detainees… Be our voice or they will eliminate us all” Plea for help should be heard by any EU official working on #Iran @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should do all it can to address death penalty risks & support universal jurisdiction to fight impunity www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
Iran: Tsunami of Arbitrary Arrests, Enforced Disappearances
Iran’s authorities have waged a brutal campaign to terrorize the population through mass arbitrary detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances in the aftermath countrywide massacres of protesters...
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Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died - after years of attacking the data as ‘Hamas propaganda’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died
Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’
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‘I wondered if I would be a coward or not’: five men speak about how being sent to war changed their sense of self, views on masculinity, relationships with women, priorities www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘I wondered if I would be a coward or not’: five Ukrainian men on how war has changed them
Russia’s invasion forced Ukrainian men of all ages to the frontlines, most with no experience of combat. Tracy McVeigh spoke to five soldiers about how life in the army transformed them and their rela...
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alarming report from @aishadown.bsky.social that iranian messaging app Gap has been passing data to the authorities www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime
Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex
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It's clear an atrocity has been unfolding in Iran, under cover of an Internet blackout. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?
Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters
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"I'm a surgeon in #Iran. This this is the horror I've witnessed in the crackdown" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous
I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters
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Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
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Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
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This is a super interesting study of bird migration, and follows 3 specific birds on their journeys. Very beautifully visualised also. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...
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A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?
The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide
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a bleak fable www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"
Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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beautiful photographs by Zed Nelson, on nature as spectacle: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found
In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it
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The Guardian editorial board: "on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide | Editorial
Editorial: Condemnation is rightly growing. But until concrete action is taken, western allies will remain complicit with these horrifying crimes
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This is very, very, scary news 😞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong?
With forests under pressure from drought, heat, disease and deer, a study has found fewer trees across a range of species surviving to maturity. But scientists say there is still hope
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