@libbyroams

Journalist & editor, covering travel, culture, and health. Bylines in Parents, Travel+Leisure, Psychology Today, and others. 📍London (she/her)

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Joined June 2012
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On the frontline of climate change in Iraq, our new @BBCArabic doc reveals the deadly impact of the oil giants' toxic air pollution on children & the planet Ali shows us his neighbourhood known as "the cemetery", in Rumaila oil field where BP is lead contractor.
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Zing Tsjeng@misszing11 Mar 2022
Even if you give up lattes, it'll still take you 270+ years to save enough to get a house in London. Pleasure to work with @nathanbickerton on some truly depressing @VICEUK data journalism. Take a peek! vice.com/en_uk/article/7kbmj…

How Many ‘Luxuries’ Would You Have to Give Up to Buy a House?

We worked out that you'd have to sacrifice Netflix and Spotify for over a thousand years just to afford a deposit in London.

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1/4 THREAD ABOUT MY GRIM EXPERIENCE OF AN ABORTION IN UK. Overwhelmed services meant I was near to cutoff for surgical abortion which are far riskier. It was suggested I travel 100s of miles to Liverpool. Services are broken - government must rectify this. independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…

I had an abortion – and my experience shows how broken the UK system truly is

When she found out she was pregnant, Maya Oppenheim knew that, like thousands of women, she could face difficulties trying to have a termination. But what she discovered were problems at every stage...

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For @restofworld, me, @megatobin1 and @ChenWQ45 spent months investigating Shein, the most successful ultra fast fashion company on the planet restofworld.org/2021/how-she…

How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion

By connecting China’s garment factories with Western Gen-Z customers, Shein ushered in a new era of “ultra-fast” shopping.

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Seeing the carbon breakdown by country is fascinating, watching the remaining carbon budget moving faster and faster towards zero is terrifying
Carbon Brief
@CarbonBrief5 Oct 2021
NEW | Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? | @DrSimEvans Cumulative fossil fuel & land emissions 1850-2021 🇺🇸 US 509GtCO2 🇨🇳 CN 284 🇷🇺 RU 172 🇧🇷 BR 113 🇮🇩 ID 103 🇩🇪 DE 88 🇮🇳 IN 86 🇬🇧 UK 74 🇯🇵 JP 68 🇨🇦 CA 65 bit.ly/3DbRrJr THREAD

Which countries are historically responsible for climate change?

Video shows, by ranked nation, cumulative CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, land use and forestry, 1850-2021 (million tonnes). Remaining carbon budget to limit global warming at 1.5C (50-50 chance).

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Friendly reminder to not comment on changes in people's bodies or (and this should just be so obvious) tell them your unsolicited theories/guesses of why they might have put on weight 🙃
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“Most citizens don’t think twice about donating clothes because the second-hand trade has been marketed to them as charity and as recycling when it’s neither.” We looked at textile waste, and where your clothing goes after you donate it buff.ly/2VW8nUp
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Any journalist worth a damn writes “pregnant people” when reporting broadly on reproductive health, rights, and justice issues—just FYI.
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I’m sorry but people wearing masks on airplanes and public transit fuckin rules and we should do it forever I love that shit
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What does IUD insertion feel like? "Shards of glass." "Hell on earth" "I don’t think I’d ever felt pain like that before." 130+ people shared their IUD experiences with @thelilynews. Most wrote to tell us how much it hurt. thelily.com/patients-are-war…

Patients are warned that IUDs can be ‘uncomfortable.’ But many say the pain is excruciating.

More than 130 people shared their IUD experiences with us.

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Love experiencing sexism in my own home: I politely asked a plumber to stop vaping in my kitchen. He raised his voice to tell me why it's his right to keep going to the point that I had to threaten to get my husband to tell him. And then he stopped.
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Oh and he lowered his mask to shout about how he had a right to vape in my home so that's a super fun 'freedom day' bonus since I'm not yet double vaxxed
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I love sports, but also, now the game is over and we're all talking about the inevitability of racist abuse and domestic violence in the wake of this. So yeah, could use some fixing I think
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Cassie@Cassiesmyth11 Jul 2021
get in girls, we’re spending the night reporting the disgusting comments on Saka’s Instagram
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Me: I don't really care about sports. Also me after watching like five games and learning @BukayoSaka87 exists: I love football
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This is May, who @OwenPinnell and I adopted and kept her old name, but I've decided she's clearly named for the May Queen she obviously is
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Human rights activist Karim Ennarah is currently jailed in Egypt, along with several colleagues from @EIPR. Karim’s wife, documentarian @Jeky_Kelly, is urging for him to be released: “He’s the kind of person that Egypt should be building its future around, and not jailing.”
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I haven't met Karim but I do know Jess, and my heart breaks for her having to fight for her husband's freedom just months after they were married
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"This is the story that convinced me not to go to family Thanksgiving," @juruwolfe told me. So if you need that -- of if someone you know does -- here's my feel-bad story of the season. fivethirtyeight.com/features…
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