I’ve reported stories for The New York Times, Washington Post, Mongabay, the BBC, Al Jazeera, MIT Technology Review, Undark Magazine, New Scientist, Science Magazine, The Gecko Project, Noema Magazine, PV Magazine, China Dialogue, Climate Home News, Business Insider, South China Morning Post, The New Humanitarian, Vice, The Times (UK), Thomson Reuters Foundation, New Naratif, World Politics Review, The Diplomat.
Below is a selection of some of my favorite, some with my own photography. Podcasts that I’ve been a part of are at the bottom.
Contently portfolio
Undark Magazine: For Captured Carbon, Scientists Plot a Sub-Ocean Tomb
Sierra Magazine: The Heavy Price of Next-Day Delivery
Climate Home News: Indonesia Turns Traditional Indigenous Land Into Nickel Industrial Zone
Mongabay: Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities
PV Magazine: Rocky road for critical minerals
MIT Technology Review: Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda
Undark Magazine: Your ‘Recycled’ Grocery Bag Might Not Have Been Recycled
Mongabay: Cultural heritage is an essential resource for climate change science, reports say
Mongabay: Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution; critics wary
Mongabay: Bolivia looks to opaque methods, firms to build lithium powerhouse
China Dialogue: The Moi struggle for land rights
Mongabay: Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?
Mongabay: Clothes sourced from plants could expand deforestation – or abate it
Noema Magazine: Who Gave The Battery Such Power?
The Gecko Project/BBC/Mongabay:
Part 1: ‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom
Part 2: Promised prosperity, drowning in debt
(Winner of a SOPA Award and TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting)
Mongabay: Deep seabed mining is risky. If something goes wrong, who will pay for it?
Science Magazine: Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?
PV Magazine: The ‘other side’ of batteries
Mongabay: ‘Profound ignorance’: Microbes, a missing piece in the biodiversity puzzle
Undark Magazine: Water or Mineral? In Chile, a Debate Over Lithium Brine
Washington Post: Ancient teeth show history of epidemics is much older than we thought
Al Jazeera: In Seattle, a ‘project’ toward a cop-free world (with photo)
Mongabay: Locals stage latest fight against PNG mine dumping waste into sea
Mongabay: Indonesian miners eyeing EV nickel boom seek to dump waste into the sea
Mongabay: Indonesian anti-graft enforcers set their sights on a new target: corporations (with photo)
New York Times: Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants
Al Jazeera: ‘When two elephants fight’: EU, Indonesia tussle over resources (with photo)
Mongabay: In Indonesia, a project meant to boost livelihoods has left locals behind (with photo, video)
Washington Post: Mining turned Indonesian seas red. The drive for greener cars could herald a new toxic tide. (with photo)
South China Morning Post: How Indonesia’s homestays give authentic local experiences for tourists, but face concerns from authorities and competition from hotels (with photo)
New Naratif: Love in the Time of State Engineering (with photo)
South China Morning Post: Dark tourism draw: Indonesian earthquake city where mud buried homes exerts a ghoulish fascination for some, one year on (with photo)
Mongabay: On an island coveted by miners, villagers prepare to raise a ruckus (with photo, video)
Mongabay: In Indonesia, a land ‘left behind’ weighs its development alternatives (with photo, video)
The New Humanitarian: Indonesia’s start-up ‘disaster news agency’ (with photo)
Al Jazeera: ‘Open prison’: The growing despair of refugees stuck in Indonesia (with photo)
New Naratif: “Lust Has To Be Managed” (with photo)
The New Humanitarian: Behind Indonesia’s tsunami response, a patchwork army of volunteers (with photo)
Al Jazeera: In hills of Sulawesi Indonesia quake survivors chafe at aid rules (with photo)
Mongabay: In a land untouched by mines, indigenous holdouts fight a coal invasion (with photo)
Podcasts
Sunrise Stories: Battery Blues: Ian Morse and Pius Ginting on the problem with electric vehicles
Counterpoint: Panning and Doing
New Climate Capitalism: Mining for clean energy: fact, fiction and misinformation
REALTalk on Voice of Vashon: Electric Cars
Mongabay Newscast: Can the planet support a clean energy transition?
The Take with Al Jazeera: Coronavirus diaries from Tehran, Berlin and Seattle
In This Climate segment on nickel mining in Recipe for an electric vehicle battery
Second Presidential Debate podcast, New Naratif – Debat Kedua Pilpres (in Indonesian)
Southeast Asia Dispatches podcast, New Naratif – The Indonesian Election
Southeast Asia Dispatches podcast interview with New Naratif on Palu earthquake reporting
Ian Morse 