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

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 financing provided ...

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

As Trump's inauguration looms, climate activists fear for the Paris Agreement and Biden's climate laws – but, as we lay out, many more changes could be afoot President Trump's second term could bring ...

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 ...

Just weeks before the US presidential election, Facebook and TikTok approved ads containing harmful election disinformation. This is despite a similar Global Witness investigation published two years ...

Climate-vulnerable countries are pushing for a just loss and damage fund to help them recover from climate disasters. But will wealthier nations pay up?

Barclays, Vanguard, and BlackRock made millions financing JBS, a Brazilian meatpacker whose operations are driving destruction of Apyterewa Indigenous land ...

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 ...

45 accounts that appear to be bots on X have generated over 4 billion views while amplifying racist and sexualised abuse, conspiracy theories and climate disinformation, according to a Global Witness ...