Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia Cattle in Pará State of Brazil. 60% of tropical ...

The algorithm of social media platform TikTok is recommending twice the amount of far-right and nationalist right content to politically balanced users ahead of the Polish election runoff, new Global ...

2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. In the same year, both ExxonMobil and Chevron hit new highs in oil production, exacerbating the crisis they publicly claim to be addressing Global Witness ...

The entrance to the Veolia San Silvestre Environmental Technology Park. Leonardo Granados / Global Witness Global Witness obtained a series of videos secretly filmed within the Veolia-managed site ...

Recommendations The government of Kenya should: Ensure that those responsible for the murder of Joannah Stutchbury are brought to justice. Recognise the rights of Indigenous peoples and local ...

Generative AI chatbots fail to adequately reflect fossil fuel companies’ complicity in the climate crisis, a Global Witness investigation has found AI-generated image of COP29, using the prompt "Show ...

Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin’s importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be ...

The Philippines’ mining industry is open for business. But with skyrocketing global demand for minerals – critical for the transition to green energy – Indigenous groups and the country’s rich ...

The UN's COP29 climate summit is taking place in November in Azerbaijan, a country that not only gets most of its government revenue from fossil fuels but that is set to increase its gas production ...

Financial powerhouses including Barclays, Vanguard and BlackRock made millions from financing Brazilian meatpacker JBS, whose operations are driving destruction of Apyterewa Indigenous land A Parakanã ...

An estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2023 around the world, according to a new Global Witness report published today The new figures take the total number of defenders ...

Observing bulldozer dragging (Afromosia) log to logging roadside, Oriental Province, DRC.Global Witness DRC’s efforts to combat illegal logging reversed within months DRC government attempts in 2022 ...