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Lynzy Billing Wins a 2024 Izzy for Environmental Reporting on Afghanistan

A year after America’s withdrawal from the country following 20 years of war, Billing spent weeks on the ground interviewing Afghan villagers whose air and water were poisoned by massive U.S. military installations.

By ICN Editors

Freelance journalist Lynzy Billing won the 2024 Izzy Award for “outstanding achievement in independent media.” Credit: Courtesy of Lynzy Billing

A farmer from Khoshob village walks near his water reservoir near Kandahar airfield, in southern Afghanistan. Credit: Kern Hendricks

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