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 ...

In 2024, both ExxonMobil and Chevron hit new highs in oil production, exacerbating the crisis they publicly claim to be ...

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 ...

With news that TikTok may have been exploited to influence the Romanian presidential elections, we tested what election content its algorithm recommends People take part in the Romania Hopes rally, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renewable energy is often hailed as a panacea for the energy crisis. But without better consultation and regulation, plans to expand mining for minerals central to the energy transition could be ...

TikTok performed worst in new test of social media platforms’ ability to detect election disinformation. TikTok approved 16 advertisements targeted to Ireland containing election disinformation ahead ...

In 2022, a Global Witness investigation revealed a shocking reality at the heart of the green energy transition. Unregulated mines in Myanmar had become an essential source of heavy rare earth ...

A Global Witness investigation has found that The Epoch Times is targeting people in the UK with adverts on Facebook and Instagram that deny the existence of climate change and question its severity.