Jo Chandler

3 weeks ago | themonthly.com.au | Simon Webster |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths

Coming back to Perth after a decent stint away, one can feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle waking from his 20-year snooze to find his village near unrecognisable, the American Revolution having come and gone. The changes were perhaps not so drastic at my in-laws’ place – there were now purple creepers in the garden beds, and a new armchair in the living room – but things were still different, slightly askew. And it wasn’t just decorative. Open a window and you’d feel it: change was in the air.

May 28, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ashlynne McGhee |Jo Chandler |Justine McMahon

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. How to listen? WebsiteCARE’s country director Justine McMahon on why getting in to help is so hard, and journalist Jo Chandler on what she fears may happen next. As many as 2000 people have been buried under rubble and dirt after a landslide in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands this week.

May 2, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Jo Chandler

When head ranger Ikavy Pitatamae walks into the rainforest that is his inheritance on Choiseul Island, the westernmost of the nearly 1000 islands that make up the South Pacific archipelago of Solomon Islands, he surveys it with the heart of a tribal landowner and the eye of a forester. Leading the way up a track into the bush, he wades into a glassy stream, stirring small, brown fish into a spin.

Apr 15, 2024 | e360.yale.edu | Jo Chandler

In a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging, several tribes joined together to sell “high integrity” carbon credits on international markets. The project not only preserves their highly biodiverse rainforest, but it funnels life-changing income to Indigenous landowners.

Apr 15, 2024 | e360.yale.edu | Jo Chandler

Jo Chandler is an award-winning environmental journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among others. She teaches at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.