The report also details the rapid increase in shipping activity around the two largest nickel-based industrial parks, Weda ...

The reported legal liabilities from complaints faced by meat giant JBS have more than tripled from US $1.8 billion as of June 2023 to $6.9 billion at the end of 2024, new findings from Global Witness ...

A six-month investigation by Global Witness followed the outsourcing of this highly toxic industry across the Chinese border into Myanmar. There, heavy rare earth mining has exploded so quickly that ...

Mercury exposure is associated with a range of serious health complications, including impacts on pregnant woman and infant brain development.Local people had previously sounded the alarm over ...

For decades, scientists have been documenting changes in the earth’s climate and warning of the effects.Their findings underpin government declarations of climate emergency and policy responses.. But ...

Between 2013 and 2016 mining giant Glencore paid over $75m to Dan Gertler, a controversial businessman accused of bribing senior officials in Democratic Republic of Congo to advance his mining ...

In 2023 the EU imported 130 million barrels of seaborne refined products – mostly diesel – from refineries processing Russian crude. These purchases were worth an estimated €1.1 billion to the Kremlin ...

Key findings. Shockingly, over half of all reported killings last year occurred in two countries – Colombia and the Philippines. Both have seen a rise in attacks against land and environmental ...

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku, underscoring an outsized polluter presence year after year at crucial climate talks, according to a new ...

Companies based in France, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Poland have been importing timber from Industrie Forestière du Congo (IFCO) – a logging company which has flouted forest laws in the ...

In June, we held a two day global event, entitled Time for a Climate Revolution, which featured 27 speakers from across six continents, including US, UK, India, Chile, Uganda and Nigeria, sharing ...

Ranking global contributors to "forest-risk" finance: China’s rise to the top. Chinese banks became the largest creditors of “forest-risk” companies globally between 2018-2024 – excluding financial ...