Colin Daileda

Oct 23, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Colin Daileda

Samaan Nazim was nine years old on December 26, 2004, when he woke to the sound of his shrieking aunt. Shirtless and shoeless, he dashed out of his house on the Maldivian island of GA. Villingili, where he lived with his family only two hundred meters from shore. Nazim was just in time to watch a wall of water smash into the beach. His grandma grabbed his hand and the two of them sprinted away as the wave flattened homes behind them.

Jul 23, 2024 | uncannythread.substack.com | Colin Daileda

Bangalore — April 20, 2024I had been at an ultimate frisbee tournament with my partner Nikki and our 12 teammates all day (welcome to the blog, I am an extremely cool person), at a big patch of lumpy, crisped grass the color of hay. It had taken us some 40 minutes to get there even though we'd left before five in the morning, when hardly anyone was on the road.

Jul 17, 2024 | uncannythread.substack.com | Colin Daileda

Hello. Hi. So nice to see all of you. Wow. As a lot of you know, I spend much of my time coming up with (or failing to come up with) new ways to tell stories about climate change and environmental degradation. Sometimes these stories are about grand, sweeping developments, like massive changes to the Indian monsoon that are already transforming the speed and ferocity of rainstorms that affect more than one billion people.

Nov 14, 2023 | hiddencompass.net | Lola Akinmade Åkerström |Colin Daileda |Karen Green

Support the Pathfinders honoring a Greenlandic tradition nearly lost to time. Photo Essay This story has been published in the 2023 Pathfinder Issue of Hidden Compass. While every story has a single byline, the issue is a collaborative effort. Storyteller proceeds from all patronage campaigns in this issue will go collectively to Team Tété on top of their article pay. Arnaq Petersen warns us.