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Daniel Shailer is a correspondent with the Associated Press' Central and South America bureau in Mexico City.
Previously he's worked as an award-winning, environmental freelance reporter, and with the Tucson Sentinel in southern Arizona, where he's covered everything from mining and waste to local politics and conservation.
Daniel has written narrative features, investigations and news articles with photo, audio and data.
His freelance reporting has appeared in the New Yorker, Gothamist and Business Insider. He has written essays for the LA Review of Books and Literary Hub. His articles from the Associated Press have been syndicated by the Washington Post, ABC, The Independent, and more.
Daniel's stories on water pollution in New York City won awards from the Overseas Press Club and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He was not Covering Climate Now's 2023 student journalist of the year, but at least he was shortlisted.
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Panama's government has nearly approved a new bill revoking a controversial mining contract. A Canadian company's local subsidiary had been approved for at least 20 years more mining two weeks ago.
A manhunt is ongoing in northern Mexico after state police were ambushed driving out of Santa Ana, Sonora.
Chile's National Forestry Corporation has permanently closed a popular glacier, sparking outrage from adventurers and local guides.
Mexican officials have imposed severe, monthslong cuts to Mexico City's water supply just a month after initial restrictions were ordered as drought dries the capital's reservoirs.
Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem.
The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been creating more protected natural areas, but environmentalists accuse it of trying to "greenwash" an image of favoring petroleum in a time of climate change.
Mexico
The reservoirs that provide Mexico City with much of its water are distressingly low after persistent drought through the summer.
Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country's largest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation program for river pollution in the northern state of Sonora.
A Mexican government official says the military continues to obstruct the search for truth decades after the country's so-called "dirty war" against leftist dissidents.
Various Guatemalan government webpages have been disabled after hackers launched a cyberattack early Saturday.
Hundreds of judicial employees, from administrative staff to judges, took to the steps of Mexico City's largest federal court to launch a national, four-day strike against proposed budget cuts.
The mayor of New York City is in Puebla, Mexico, thanking migrants for their contributions to his city, but telling them it is already full.
Students have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark 55 years since the military massacred hundreds of students in Tlatelolco plaza.
Almost 112,000 people are missing in Mexico. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claims that is an overcount, but a new U.N. report suggests the number may be even greater.
Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, officials with the country's environmental agency say.
Counting upwards in chant, bereaved families marched through Mexico City in remembrance of 43 students abducted by the government nine years ago.
Best of NYC
Leslie Hamilton, an accountant, battled sea lice and rusting garbage barges as she became the first person on record to swim a lap around Staten Island since 1979.
As New York City spends billions of dollars preparing for its next extreme flood, new research suggests a cheaper, greener resource may already be scattered across the five boroughs: bus stop shelters.
Kelp grown in the canal is too toxic to eat, so the RETI Center will experiment with new, climate-friendly uses for the crop, including making plant-based concrete.
Investigations
Two years ago, the city's new "sustainability campus" promised to get Tucson waste-free by 2050. What's changed since then? The old landfill has a new sign out front and plenty of plans, some of which local advocates call greenwashing.
Staten Island residents who sold their homes to the state as part of one of the country's first major "managed retreats" were promised the land would be returned to nature. Instead, part of it is being turned into a soccer complex.
"It's shady. We had no idea." Thousands of New Yorkers move into flood-prone homes every year and (because of a decades old loophole) no one warns them. The loophole was nearly closed this year, till real estate lobbyists fought to keep it. Here's how.
Santa Cruz County officials have insisted a rezoning in Rio Rico has nothing to do with mining. But leaked letter from landowner Andrew Jackson shows he explicitly supports South32 building a processing plant on the land.
Formula 1's flagship sustainability promise doesn't add up. The inside story from an ex-commercial director and factory engineer.
Features
As the corporate clamor for carbon-capturing crops grows louder, a Brooklyn kelp farm tries to find the balance between building community and cashing in.
On a Dorset peninsula, a massive effort is underway to restore the ecological processes of prehistory.
Preliminary findings from a study in the Santa Cruz River suggest floating trash traps could solve a trash problem caused by the whole city.
Elizabeth Jane-Burnet wrote that upturning earth is a way of listening to the ground speak. If that’s true, then for almost a century Arne Peninsula, on the south coast of Dorset, has been screaming. A kayak in search of wild-ness.
Environment
The EPA has finalized a 30-year plan to clean drinking water in a Tohono O'odham village polluted by decades of copper mining. Meanwhile, a different EPA department is negotiating to reopen the mine with the same company first responsible for the waste.
Arizona environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service on Tuesday morning, alleging that permits for exploratory mining will threaten ecologically vulnerable areas of the Patagonia Mountains south of Tucson.
Imagine a river so dirty it makes the Hudson dirtier: that's the Saw Mill River, which empties in Yonkers. Here's how locals are scientists are getting to the bottom of its pollution problem.
This August, Manhattan residents accused ConEd of dumping hot, dirty water into the Hudson at Pier 98, and gave 60 days to respond. Advocates wanted answers; they got silence. The deadline just passed and now the Department of Justice is weighing federal prosecution.
In May 2019, the Eurasian beaver was officially declared a native species in Scotland. Since then, over 200 have been killed. What's more, each of those deaths was licensed by NatureScot, the official agency charged with " inspir[ing] everyone to care more" about Scottish wildlife.
An in-depth review of the science and presentation of hit Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy. What does director Tabrizi get right and where does his sensationalism tell the wrong story? As public consumers, what can we take from the film into our daily lives and politics?
Sports
Anthony Chamberlain rose up the ranks at the London law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. After 13 years of hard work and partying, he experienced a heart attack at 38 years old and quit. This is his story of leaving the corporate world to become a lifeguard, as told to Daniel Shailer.
After 24 years as a combat engineer and demolition specialist, Gordon 'Gordy' Ewell left the Army as a master sergeant with no hearing and minimal eyesight after suffering six IED explosions. And yet, despite the loss of his senses, Ewell's most lasting injuries were mental: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and all of the life-changing symptoms that come along with it.
Despite being the best ultra-marathon swimmer in the world, let alone her country, Swim Australia refuse to recognise her achievements: ostensibly because each record was 'not a race'. Swimming, Surviving DV and Media with the World's Greatest open water swimmer.
Channel swimmers are used to uncertainty but this year, more than ever, has frayed the patience of athletes and those helping them across alike. Daniel Shailer investigates how this unique community is adapting to unusual circumstances. With restrictions changing on a weekly basis, all that is certain is that any swimmers lucky enough to leave Dover this year will have plenty of stories to tell.
Since Captain Matthew Webb made the first crossing in 1875, the English Channel has been a personal testing ground for open-water swimmers around the world. Thought of as the 'Mount Everest' of endurance swimming, the idea of racing across might seem at best pointless and at worst dangerous: 21 miles of unpredictable tides, tankers and jellyfish.
Sarah Thomas, sharks and the swim that had Reagan and Gorbachev talking
Arts
IF A WHALE falls in the ocean, does it make a sound? What parasites, abyssal crustaceans, and scavenger hagfish will come to call it home? Will marine particles aggregate on its body "like snow," forming "the merest blueprint of whale"?
The sun is rising on Act IV of La bohème at the Colliseum. A set which has rotated through Parisian cafes and bohemian flats is now being silently, slowly shunted back to where it began by a troupe of stage-hands. ‘That looks difficult’ someone whispers. They’re not wrong. In a way, much of this production (the fifth English National Opera revival of Jonathan Miller’s original) looks more difficult than it needs too.
I was introduced to Haunts of the Black Masseur in a Carnaby Street café. From octopus porn to the Victorian seaside, it is ceaselessly curious, kind and fluid. Last month marked it's 30th birthday: a strange, cult swim-y book by Charles Sprawson.
What happens if you put all the awkwardness, discomfort and pain of family therapy through the sausage grinder of a drawing-room drama? No punning repartee, shady affairs or mysterious characters appearing in the night - just difficult conversations, long pauses and jugs of tap water.
Yousefzada's memoir is a compelling story of fluid identity in modern Britain - a tale of constant personal reinvention and self-made success in one of the world's most competitive industries.
'The decision is made at a higher management level': the chilling words of a government agent removing a daughter from her mother.
Classic horror movies are not known, in general, for setting the gold standard when it comes to representation. How is a season at the Prince Charles turning the tables with female monsters? A retrospective starting with "Dracula's Daughter" (1936).
‘About as big as it gets’ says Martin Brabbins: ENO Music Director and conductor for this new production of The Valkyrie. When it comes to the orchestra, he’s not wrong: harps and timpani spill out of the pit and up into boxes at the Coliseum. But in every other sense, this new production seems to shy away from bigness. What it gains in contemporaneity and intimacy, it loses (dearly) in awful, moving power.
An English sailor, American bombardier and French lieutenant walk into a room. Soon they are sleeping together, playing craps for a Duke’s daughter and arguing for cross-border consensus on that timeless question echoing across dancefloors: what is love.
Travel & Adventure
What do mermaids, my Dad's school assemblies in the '60s and Marine Protected Areas have in common?
"So Daniel, we've got a plan." Swimming the Channel: 15 hours, 60 kilometres and plenty of jellyfish.
As lockdown looms, some friends and I make the trip to Byron's Pool. Do the poet's circle of gentlemen swimmers have anything to teach us about reconnecting with nature today?