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 ...

[16th July 2025] – Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ...

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

The Sofia Iztok thermal power plant, powered by fossil gas. (c) Damian Vodenitcharov. Damian Vodenitcharov The EU’s imports of US liquefied gas are creating emissions that could cause more than €100 ...

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 ...

We share our predictions for climate disinformation in 2025, with a new US president, extreme weather and COP30 all heaping pressure on social media platforms ...

Greenwashing and bothsidesism in AI chatbot answers about fossil fuels' role in climate change ...

The Azerbaijan COP29 team charged with leading this year’s global UN climate talks helped facilitate discussions about fossil fuel deals at the annual conference.

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 ...