In recent months, we have started using an AI-based tool to classify records at scale. This approach has helped us test hypotheses more quickly and speeded up classification. We are making the tool we ...

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 ...

Some of the world’s lowest-income and most aid-dependent nations paying millions to lobbyists with ties to US President ...

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 ...

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 ...

The jaguar's future looks increasingly uncertain as Big Agribusiness tears down its home in Brazil's tropical forests to make way for cattle ranching Jaguars are key for healthy ecosystems. Gerald ...

BP’s scrapping of 2030 interim target to reduce production estimated to cause 72,000 additional heat deaths by end of century driven by increased emissions ...

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 ...

For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world, and 2022 marks the beginning of our ...

Generative AI tools are increasingly part of the way we search for information – from search engines providing “AI overviews” to powering chatbots in instant messenger services. As many people have ...