Sign in

Alex Cuadros

@alexcuadros.bsky.social
1.1K followers 171 following 36 posts

ProPublica climate reporter. Author of BRAZILLIONAIRES and WHEN WE SOLD GOD'S EYE. Past bylines: Bloomberg Businessweek, NYT Mag, Harper's, New Yorker, etc. More here: alexcuadros.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: I obtained a draft of the Trump administration plan to roll back the Biden EPA rules on methane pollution. I reported previously on the little-known oil-industry campaign to deregulate “stripper wells” — which is finally coming to fruition: www.propublica.org/article/meth...
propublica.org
EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly p...
5220140
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote this short piece about my call with Trump, and what it helped me to understand about how his administration works.
915445
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵
A man in a green jersey and helmet and holding a polo stick sits on a horse.
10343164
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…
4621245
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Belatedly posting this since apparently a lot of people are using Bluesky these days. I remain very excited to be joining the team: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...
propublica.org
Alex Cuadros and Katie Worth Join ProPublica’s National Team
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
525221
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thrilled to be in such excellent company as a finalist for the California Book Award!
040
Reposted by Alex Cuadros
Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I reviewed @alexcuadros.bsky.social's anti-Rousseau portrait of how one indigenous group entered the illegal diamond trade (for better or worse).
053
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I love that The Guardian found a Brazilian-Brit to narrate this excerpt of my book www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
theguardian.com
Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity – podcast
In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought overBy Alex Cuadros. R...
073
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My piece in the NYT today www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | A Reminder on Valentine’s Day: That Diamond Might Not Be Conflict-Free (Gift Article)
Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.
010
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I got the privilege of writing some text to accompany these beautiful photos by Musuk Nolte www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
Shipwrecked in the Amazon
Photographs of the worst drought in the river basin’s recorded history
032
Reposted by Alex Cuadros
Andre Pagliarini @apagliar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The rampant deforestation of the Amazon has the potential to be one of the most devastating policy failures in human history. In his new book, alexcuadros.bsky.social enriches our understanding of why it’s so hard to arrest the damage. My review for @newrepublic.com t.co/GTzUCHAXXE
t.co
https://newrepublic.com/article/186807/amid-devastation-amazon-diamonds-best-hope
062
Reposted by Alex Cuadros
Scott Wallace @scottwalleye.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Excellent review of a brilliant new book by @alexcuadros.bsky.social on the improbable story of Brazil's Cinta Larga people on whose lands some of the world's richest deposits of diamonds were discovered in the mid-20th century. Gripping read.
141
Reposted by Alex Cuadros
Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Half way through @alexcuadros.bsky.social's forthcoming When We Sold God’s Eye. It is very good indeed, a picture of Brazil really, all the crime and beauty, but through indigenous eyes. A taster here: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
theguardian.com
Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity
The long read: In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought over
121
Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An excerpt of my new book, out next week -- preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alex-...
hachettebookgroup.com
When We Sold God's Eye
The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illeg...
040
Reposted by Alex Cuadros
Andrew Fishman @andrew.intercept.com.br · 25/11/2024
Livro que Dom Phillips fazia ao ser morto foi concluído por amigos e sai em 2025 🎉🎉🎉 www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/walt...
www1.folha.uol.com.br
210820