The World Wants More Ube. Philippine Farmers Are Struggling to Keep Up.
Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Inside Climate News, Grist, Canary Media, and other outlets.
Before moving to the United States, he led frontline coverage of the Duterte drug war at Nobel Prize-winning newsroom Rappler in the Philippines.
He has been recognized by the Society of Publishers in Asia Awards and the Human Rights Press Awards, and he has been a fellow at the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics and the Overseas Press Club Foundation.
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In California, Flawed Air Rules Threaten Farmworkers as Wildfires Pump More Smoke Onto Fields
Air pollution levels considered “safe” for farmworkers provide inadequate protection from health risks and injuries, a new study from University of California Davis finds.
Solar Power Gave Hope to Former Prisoners in NJ. Federal Cuts Are Taking It Back
As federal clean energy programs vanish under Trump, graduates of a reentry solar training program face an uncertain future.
Millions Left in Air Pollution ‘Blind Spots’ Despite Stricter EPA Standards
As government sensors fall short, people are buying their own to protect against particulate pollution linked to heart and lung disease, cancer and a higher overall risk of premature death.
As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste
What happens when a solar panel dies?
Black Residents of Altadena Struggle to Hang on to Their Community After LA Fires
In the historic African American enclave, residents face rising costs, delayed aid and tough choices about rebuilding—or leaving.
Why Prices Are Soaring in the Country’s Largest Grid Region, Explained in 5 Charts
PJM Interconnection has overseen two record-breaking capacity auctions, leading to costs that get passed on to consumers.
As Seas Rise, Marshes May Still Trap Carbon—and Cool the Planet
Rising seas spell doom for coastal wetlands trapping carbon—or do they? New research reveals that as these ecosystems transition, they can still trap carbon and possibly cool the planet.
Under Duterte, Philippines allowed forgery of drug war death records
How the Philippine medico-legal system is broken.
A victim plays dead in Duterte's drug war
In an exclusive interview, Rappler speaks with Lauro Lagarde, a victim of a police shooting who plays dead to live another day and tell the story.
How decades of mining led to a town's collapse
The choices that shaped the gold-embedded earth in Itogon, Benguet, could not be confined to the days before the fatal landslide.
'Houses flew' when the typhoon came
When super typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) came to Cagayan, it didn’t only ruin the people’s crops and trees, it uprooted their homes from right beneath their foundations.
Data
States with no solar panel decommissioning policy
Capacity price auction results in PJM
New and retiring power in the largest energy grid in America
New Jersey emissions
Summer peak load forecast hits record-high at PJM
The US immigration flowchart
Trash pickup time map in New York City
Immigration processing petition times per US president
Tree ratio in New York City neighborhoods
Air pollution monitor blindspots in America
Videos
Interviews
A Thousand Cuts | FRONTLINE, PBS
The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation is a Warning to the U.S., The New Yorker
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to 2 Journalists, Highlighting Fight for Press Freedom, The New York Times
The World’s Deadliest Drug War Just Got a New Leader, VICE
Inside Rappler, the publication that’s taking on an authoritarian government — and Facebook, Rest of World
Rappler's Fight for Facts and Freedom, VOGUE
‘Life of journalists is cheap’ - how the Philippines became deadly for reporters, Al Jazeera
In The Shadow of False Light, Nobel Peace Prize Commission
Awards
Overseas Press Club Foundation holds dinner for 2025 scholars
Veteran journalists at the OPCF welcome a new batch of investigative and foreign correspondents at the Salesforce Tower in Manhattan, New York City.
Rappler’s Rambo Talabong among 7 panelists in prestigious journalism seminar
Rappler multimedia reporter Rambo Talabong is chosen to be a part of the prestigious Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar panel.
Rappler report on hospital 'EJK' victim wins human rights award
Rappler multimedia reporter Rambo Talabong is recognized for his work in exposing police brutality in the Philippines.
An exclusive report by Rappler’s Rambo Talabong is a merit winner at the 25th Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong.
An exclusive report by Rappler’s Rambo Talabong is a merit winner at the 25th Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong.