Conflict coltan from DRC is already finding its way into electronic devices, and accelerated AI and data centre demand could ...

With their forests and farmland vanishing into sterile monocultures, Dayak communities in Indonesia have mobilised to resist the land grabs ...

Copper will be essential to the world’s decarbonisation plans, but is there enough of it to go around? We examine this ...

Major British charcoal brand Big K’s Paraguayan supplier sources timber from cattle farm that has deforested area size of ...

As barbecues dominated UK headlines this summer, the charcoal fuelling them may have come from Paraguay’s decimated Gran Chaco forest, a new Global Witness investigation can reveal. Big K – a large ...

While firefighters battled blazes across the south of England this week, Barclays helped arrange a $750 million bond deal for UK oil and gas giant Harbour Energy, Global Witness can reveal Fire and ...

World’s five leading oil "supermajor" companies rake in $48 billion in Q2 2026 – the most since height of Ukraine crisis World’s five leading oil "supermajor" companies rake in $48 billion in Q2 2026 ...

An expanding network of individuals and companies with ties to the US administration is looking to profit from the renewed interest in Greenland’s mineral deposits Kapisillit, Greenland. Getty Images ...

AI is quietly boosting fossil fuel expansion, helping some of the world’s biggest polluters to drill and extract more oil and gas. It is time to look at the emissions enabled by AI that could ...

The EU and US-backed Lobito Corridor railway for critical mineral transport risks driving evictions in a mining region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and leaving vulnerable people open to ...

A farm in the village of Gbordoi, Bong County, Liberia, cleared in 2024. Rice has been planted while the farmer waits for cocoa to grow. Global Witness An investigation by Global Witness links some of ...

Julia Francisco Martínez stands at the graveside of her husband Juan, a Honduran Indigenous defender who was found murdered in 2015. Giles Clarke / Global Witness Every year, Global Witness works with ...