Red-tagging – which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists – is used to silence land and environmental defenders ...

Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand in the way of progress at COP30 Imagine earning the responsibility of ...

French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia ...

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 ...

The 25 deals SOCAR signed with foreign firms since Azerbaijan was announced as COP29 host are worth close to three times more than contracts sealed in the preceding 12 months (worth $3 billion) and ...

An undercover investigation reveals how the Azerbaijani petrostate used its position as host of COP29 to facilitate discussion of new fossil fuel deals at the annual UN climate conference Elnur ...

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 ...

X’s AI chatbot Grok responds with disinformation and toxic content when asked about political elections in a Global Witness investigation. Grok is X's answer to the generative AI chatbot rush, which ...

At the beginning of July, we detected 10 bot-like accounts on X spreading political messages around the UK election with an oversized reach. A few weeks later, we’ve found more – a set of 45 bot-like ...

Satellite data shows an increase in gas flaring since Azerbaijan last reported its emissions six years ago, calling into question BP and state oil company’s pledge to eliminate methane flaring by 2030 ...

A new report by Global Witness shows that the world’s dependence on heavy rare earths from Myanmar’s conflict-affected Kachin state has rapidly increased and is having a devastating impact on ...