As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve ...

Key findings Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in ...

Major Spanish bank Santander has helped fund one of South America’s worst deforesters by co-arranging $1.3 billion of financing for agribusiness giant Cresud since 2011, Global Witness can reveal.

The jaguar's future looks increasingly uncertain as Big Agribusiness tears down its home in Brazil's tropical forests to make way for cattle ranching Jaguars are key for healthy ecosystems. Gerald ...

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 ...

Hectares, Nov 2021-Dec 2024The UK’s total deforestation footprint linked to these direct imports grew by more than 39,300ha – an area of land bigger than the UK’s New Forest – since the Environment ...

While Trump zeroes in on embattled Ukraine's critical mineral reserves, conflict and inequality clash with efforts for a just energy transition across the globe The extraction and trade of some ...

As Trump's inauguration looms, climate activists fear for the Paris Agreement and Biden's climate laws – but, as we lay out, many more changes could be afoot President Trump's second term could bring ...

These days, oil companies talk a good game, setting out net-zero plans and releasing green ads touting their renewable investments. They push unproven techno-fixes like carbon capture and storage (CCS ...

A new Global Witness investigation examined if YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok can detect and remove harmful election disinformation. Our new investigation found that Facebook and TikTok had improved ...

British bank Barclays earned $1.7 billion from financing Brazilian meat giant JBS over the last five years as the company’s operations contributed to the invasion and destruction of an Indigenous ...

At least 196 land and environmental defenders were killed last year for trying to protect their homes, community or the planet, according to a new report by Global Witness released today, working in ...