While we at Global Witness were familiar with the targeting of our partners as they were defending their land and environment, the murder of our former colleague, Wutty, prompted us to confront a ...

Oil and gas wells pose risks to health and environment as climate crisis expands California's fire hazard zones ...

Since the LA wildfires communities have been fighting for justice and accountability via polluter pays legislation. Our ...

Next week, scientists, negotiators and government attaches gather in Bonn for the halfway point to COP30 – a critical moment to decide the agenda for the Brazil conference. One issue in particular has ...

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 ...

Bulldozers used for clearing forest on Cresud’s farms in Salta province, Argentina. Greenpeace Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the ...

Environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include climate frontline voices at COP30 ...

In a fight between a jaguar and a cow, who do you think would win? If you guessed South America's most powerful predator, you’d be wrong. As industrial agriculture like cattle ranching destroys Brazil ...

Trump’s obsession with rare earth minerals makes sense when you understand their role in modern military technology Critical minerals have in recent years been central to global visions of a greener ...

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 ...

Consumers in the UK are still at risk of buying goods linked to deforestation, despite a law introduced in 2021 to clean up supply chains and ban such trade. New analysis from Global Witness reveals ...