He has published stories on mining and energy policy in Yale Environment 360, The Arizona Republic, Inter Press Service and numerous South African newspapers. He is an associate at the Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism [18] and an honorary research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand's City Institute. His current investigation into South Africa's abandoned mines comes from a year of reporting, some of which can be found on his website: www.MarkOlalde.com [19].