Author of The Genius of Trees
Istanbul, Turkey
Joined November 2013
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Thrilled and amazed to be on the Women’s prize for non-fiction 2026 longlist with so many brilliant authors theguardian.com/books/2026/f…
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Few news teams have covered a story as relentlessly and as thoroughly as Bloomberg’s Turkey crew, headed by @uguruzyilmaz, who helped blow the lid off Turkey’s investment fund scandal.
Months of top-notch reporting, capped by this must-read.
Inside the billion-dollar fund scandal rocking Erdogan's Turkey bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Some of Iraq's most significant archaeological treasures, damaged by ISIL during its occupation of Mosul, have been restored.
Experts painstakingly pieced together thousands of fragments to bring the ancient Assyrian artefacts back to life.
Al Jazeera's Peter Smith reports.
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I am pleased to be a part of the launch of the Kurdistan Biodiversity Project, an initiative by Kurdistan Foundation to document and protect our natural heritage for future generations.
The project will log our wildlife and plant species, support scientific research, and strengthen conservation policies by building a database of Kurdistan’s flora and fauna.
Protecting our biodiversity is a responsibility we all share.
biodiversity.krd
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The deforestation of the Amazon surged under Bolsonaro. Now under Lula it has fallen to the lowest on record. Bolsonaro's son, now running for president, threatens to reverse that. trib.al/75BfbU8
Thrilled to be talking next Sunday about trees and how they shape the world. 11.30 @Wimbookfest !
General Sale for Autumn Festival now open!
We are thrilled to open up General Sale to our Autumn Festival. Some of the names in our fantastic line-up include:
@RichardEGrant - Vanessa Feltz - @TheZeinabBadawi - Elif Shafak
Explore our full programme: wimbledonbookfest.org/whats-…
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Four people tackling a wildfire in a national park on Indonesia’s island of Java have been killed, the Forestry Ministry said, as the country battles its worst forest fires in more than a decade aje.news/oo8zba
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Nature research paper: Interhemispheric monsoon dynamics over the past 450,000 years
go.nature.com/3VAEiIB
I loved seeing them as I sailed down the coast this autumn. So many of them, some huge, some smaller, mostly leaping under swirls of seabirds
All but extinct by 2010, the ‘tiger of the sea’ has experienced the most unlikely renaissance: ft.trib.al/9Y2wowG
I think the x could be some form of reduced transpiration as large trees are cut down and replanted with smaller ones? You’d get a less profound energy transfer up… But no idea if this works from a physics point of view
For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for.
Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than scientists expected — and now researchers worry they might lose the means to figure out why
livescience.com/planet-earth…
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On this day in 1920, women were awarded degrees from the University for the first time.
📷 | St Anne’s College
ALT Black and white image of the first degree day for women, 14th October 1920.
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Turkey’s most-watched news television station abruptly switched to folk dancing and rerunning old movies after police launched a dawn raid on Halk TV & a state-appointed trustee took control of the pro-opposition broadcaster
as.ft.com/r/f3c095bd-9461-45…
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Meanwhile, Turkey has seized control of Halk TV, a major opposition channel, by appointing a trustee. Police have raided channel’s Istanbul headquarters and blocked nearby streets. At least 11 people have been detained.
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Wooden artifacts and imprints show a substantial role for Neanderthal woodworking in the Middle Paleolithic.
Learn more in @ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/476NcQA
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Article from @guardian by @jonathanwatts UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests "Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority" theguardian.com/environment/…
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My latest on the implications of this summer's #wildfires. Please read and share:
nytimes.com/2026/10/12/opini…
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So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images.
Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!
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Gut microbes followed migrating humans across continents, new study suggests npr.org/2026/10/07/nx-s1-598…
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Wooden artifacts and imprints show a substantial role for Neanderthal woodworking in the Middle Paleolithic.
Learn more in @ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/476NcQA
Oh this is very cool
Study of almost 900 dogs from roughly 120 breeds finds that rapid ageing of large canines is linked to changes in the epigenome
go.nature.com/4jdTN2S
