Phoebe Greenwood

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Phoebe Greenwood

Your book Ultra-Processed People was voted The Times Science Book of the Year – why did it grab the public’s imagination? People feel gaslit by their food and by the companies that make it. The book ties up the loose threads around nutrition. Science stories interest in two ways: they either completely turn your idea of the universe and yourself on its head, or they confirm everything you’ve always believed. This is the second. You’re an infection diseases specialist at UCLH.

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Phoebe Greenwood |Roisin Lanigan

The first time I went to Gaza in 2010 I was briefed by the head of security at the NGO hosting me there on what to expect from the crossing. The blockade had only been in place three years and the dehumanising process involved was still novel. The briefing took over an hour and was more or less accurate to my experience. Erez Crossing is a huge, dystopian fortress that is Israel’s only civilian entry into Gaza, he said. It is an unmanned military complex.

Aug 11, 2023 | bhekisisa.org | Phoebe Greenwood

Thousands have fled from Rhodes, Evia and Corfu because of the wildfires in July, Europe’s hottest month on record. On islands, staff work long hours outside, suffering from heatstroke and seeing coworkers collapse during a heatwave that saw temperatures stay between 35°C and 48°C for two weeks across the Mediterranean. The tourism industry is struggling under the effects of climate change, with tourist spots like the Acropolis in Athens sometimes closing due to the heat.

Aug 4, 2023 | theguardian.com | Phoebe Greenwood

Andreas Mallis leans into the smoke and winces from the heat, sweat bursting from his forehead and running down his nose. The 57-year-old boat-tour operator blows on the embers of a fire and carefully turns strips of squid on a grill he hauled from his boat on to shore in the midday sun on the hottest day of the hottest summer Greece has seen in 50 years.

Jun 13, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Phoebe Greenwood

This spring I went on a road trip through Greece with my therapist – or, rather, two bags of her ashes in a small wooden box. We were headed to Nafplio, which is next to Argos, founded by Argus, son of Zeus, next to ancient Mycenae, built by the cyclops, because I thought this was as close I could get to driving her to the capital of myth. As she was a Jungian, myth was very much Sara’s thing. I’d been wanting to come to Nafplio ever since moving to Greece a few years ago.