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Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel lobbyists attend UN climate talks more than 7000 times as part of decades-long campaign to influence climate action

21 November 2023
Corporate Accountability

Fuel to the fire: EU banks and investors tied to violence in South Sudan

14 November 2023
Transition Minerals

A rush for Lithium in Africa risks fuelling corruption and failing citizens

14 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

Russian oil on EU soil: Bulgarian refinery skirts sanctions and buys Russian crude worth an estimated €1.1 billion in tax to the Kremlin

09 November 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Standing firm

13 September 2023
Forests

Empty promises: Cargill, soy, banks and the destruction of Bolivia’s Chiquitano forest

06 September 2023
Fossil Fuels

UK purchases of Russian-origin jet fuel worth at least £40m to the Kremlin

25 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

Five western oil firms to use 1/8 of world's carbon budget by 2050

15 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

COP28 President’s ‘hypocritical’ oil firm failing to acknowledge full extent of their carbon footprint

11 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

Shell estimated to make hundreds of millions trading Russian gas since the Ukraine invasion

02 July 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

“We need to kill them”: Xenophobic hate speech approved by Facebook, TikTok and YouTube

20 June 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

New evidence of Facebook’s sexist algorithm

12 June 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Scarred for life

30 May 2023
Fossil Fuels

Inside the murky trade of Russian oil

03 May 2023
Fossil Fuels

Exposing the connections between Wintershall’s Siberian gas fields and Russia’s military supply chain

28 April 2023
Forests

Banking on destruction: Tracking deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon - and exposing its backers

24 April 2023
Fossil Fuels

SLB Isn’t Going Anywhere

10 April 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

Global Hating

04 April 2023
Forests

Cash, Cattle and the Gran Chaco: How financiers turned a blind eye to Paraguay’s deforestation crisis

30 March 2023
Fossil Fuels

The price ain’t right

20 March 2023
Fossil Fuels

One year on: Western companies traded 533 million barrels of Russian oil

24 February 2023
Fossil Fuels

Shell & Vitol bring Russian-origin diesel into Europe, despite swearing off Russian oil

19 February 2023
Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel greenwash

15 February 2023
Fossil Fuels

Crisis year 2022 brought $134 billion in excess profit to the West’s five largest oil and gas companies

09 February 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Runaway Risk

02 February 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Violence, torture and threats continue, allege land and environmental defenders in Amazonian Brazil palm oil region

20 December 2022
Fossil Fuels

How Big Oil helped Russia

15 December 2022
Land and Environmental Defenders

Toxic Takeaways

06 December 2022
Digital Threats to Democracy

“We’re going to kill you all”: Death threats against US election workers approved on Facebook

01 December 2022
Fossil Fuels

636 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to COP27

10 November 2022
Forests

Slash and sell

08 November 2022
Digital Threats to Democracy

An open door to hate: Meta approves ads containing far-right hate speech in Norwegian

03 November 2022

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