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Africa’s #grasslands feed herds, are water factories, mop carbon from atmosphere. @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @anton harber
#grasslands #soilcarbon #climatecrisis #climateresilience #drakensberg #drakensbergmountains #storyark #storyarkdiaries
May 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Then this happened. Just in case anyone thought #StoryArk is #ElizabethGilbert doing an #EatPrayLove tour of Rome's pizzeria, it most certainly isn't. Far more gritty, living extreme weather while reporting on it. @coveringclimatenow.org #daillymaverick #storyarkdiaries #climatejournalism
October 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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A new photo essay from #StoryArk. This one considers the role of wind in the advancing dust bowl conditions of the #Richtersveld #climatecrisis #storytelling @coveringclimatenow.org #journalism #desertification #storyarkdiaries #vanlife #catsofbluesky
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Blowout — Story Ark
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March 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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#StoryArk spent two nights nested at a campsite on the Karnmelk (Buttermilk) River before heading into Lesotho. It's been wild! #climatecrisis #vanlife #adventurecats #journalism #StoryArkDiaries
March 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Escapee from Jurassic Park. How they roll, up here in #Hluhluwe #KZN

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August 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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There is wisdom, everywhere. It will find you. #Hluhluwe #BushbabyLodge

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August 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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‘A tree is a river, wrapped in bark.’ Robert MacFarlane, Is a river alive? #RobertMacFarlane #RightsOfNature #MoreThanHumanRights

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July 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Going #gonzo. After 2 decades of reporting on climate in Africa, ± 15 books, journalism awards /w best in biz, Leonie has gone rogue: bailed on capitalist grind, moved into van, is reporting from frontline. @StoryArkDiaries @coveringclimatenow.org @climate.skyfleet.blue youtu.be/nrjCleNi7qE
The good ship Story Ark sets sail
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November 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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A #photoessay from #Richtersveld #southafrica

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PHOTO ESSAY Wind-blown sand scouring life off a Southern African landscape
A nasty wind rips across Cornell’s Kop one afternoon in October 2024, driving professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his team to abandon the hilly study site a few clicks west of |Ai-|Ais Richtersveld Tr...
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April 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#StoryArk Ch 1 'Dust Bowl' route map - a two-month trip through Namaqualand. #storyarkdiaries #climatecrisis #vanlife #journalism #climateaction @antonharber.bsky.social @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social @dailymaverick.co.za @mongabay.bsky.social Powered by @ecoflows.bsky.social

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Story Ark Ch 1 Dust Bowl Route Map
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April 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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In the past few generations, we have ‘turned half the planet into a factory farm for just one species.’ Richard Powers, The Overstory.

Acknowledge the fallen.

#RichardPowers #theoverstory

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July 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years, all the stories. Tales from Southern Africa's climate tipping points. Follow us on @StoryArkDiaries on all the socials (except X - we are boycotting X).
#Climatecrisis #journalism #StoryArkDiaries #StoryArk #climatetippingpoints #vanlife #catsoftheinternet
March 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Story Ark: untold stories of how the climate crisis is unfolding on our doorstep in our lifetime.

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Cederberg whimsy I
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November 27, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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For Ch 2 & 3, #StoryArk travelled to Eastern Cape & Lesotho: grasslands for grazing, #soilcarbon storage & water regulation. #invasivetrees make an appearance. #storyarkdiaries #climatecrisis #vanlife #journalism #climateaction @antonharber.bsky.social #henrynxumalofoundation
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Story Ark: Ch 2 & 3 Golden Threads and Oil Spill
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April 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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When trees have navels.

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September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Story Ark dropped anchor in Eastern Cape, ahead of investigation into soil carbon & how Africa's grasslands & savannahs are carbon mop-up machines.
#climate #carbon #soilcarbon #soilhealth #storyarkdiaries

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Story Ark Diaries: Calm
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December 25, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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This might explain the mysterious eddies of sand dunes in the bedroom part of the tent, which I thought was hermetically sealed against them. Mouse needs to learn to shower after taking a dust-spa treatment, and wipe her paws on the mat.

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August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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No filters, just the mind-bending alchemy that happens in the skies above the Drakensberg.
#climatecrisis #vanlife #cats #storyark #storyarkdiaries
March 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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After 2 months of documenting the dustbowl conditions in Namaqualand, the 1st stories are coming out. Follow the #StoryArk website & #StoryArkDiaries YouTube channel. Here: Should the desert be a sacrifice zone for SA's development needs? But who will take home the loot?

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Story Ark Diaries: amaMpondo community on the Wild Coast - Views and News with Clarence Ford
Today we cross to science writer Leonie Joubert for an update on the Story Ark Diaries: Tales from Southern Africa’s climate tipping points.  This particular story is set in amaMpondo community from ...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Tell a funny story about running barefoot across the desert in a completely inappropriate frock... and then whip out the more serious climate story #namaqualand #dustbowl #desertification #climatecollapse #storyark #storyarkdiaries @coveringclimatenow.org @antonharber.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Have a place for everything, and keep everything in its place. Meticulously. Entropy is snapping at your heels.

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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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When life gives you lemons, go looking for wild guava. Just let the Vervets have first dibs.

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August 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Trying to keep office hours and meet deadlines while working from a tent during a days-long heatwave-slash-gale. This was the first time I thought I might have to #climate #journalism #extremeweather #storyarkdiaries #storyark
December 21, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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A Free Sate of mind in Clarens. The #adventurecat called Mouse, gettin’ peachy in a pear tree. #vanlife Anyone want to read Mouse's mountain memoirs, check out @mountainmouse7 on Insta, she's epic. #vanlife #storyark #storyarkdiaries #catsforclimateaction
March 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Not a bad day in the office: lying belly down in veld.

#ccs #carboncapture #rangelands #grasslands #climate #climatecrisis #vanlife #StoryArk #StoryArkDiaries

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Story Ark: Salt of the Earth
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January 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM