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Bundles of newly produced copper sheets are inspected and labelled at First Quantum Minerals’ Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia. Blaize Pascall / Alamy Stock Photo Since August 2021, when businessman ...

Responding to alleged plans by new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to approve more North Sea oil and gas drilling, Senior Global Witness campaigner, Flossie Boyd said: "As firefighters battle wildfires ...

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 ...

Forest likely cleared by burning for pasture, northern Chaco. Global Witness Fabrizio Nuti – head of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey (LVMH)-owned tannery group Nuti Ivo – is a key player in the leather ...

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 US first framed its illegal Venezuela attack as an operation to oust authoritarian Maduro as part of its war on drugs. But it didn’t take long for Trump to reveal a far more lucrative motive: ...

How nickel is mined In Surigao del Sur, nickel is extracted using open-pit strip methods, a process that involves denuding the mountain and stripping away the topsoil and rock. Heavy machinery scoops ...

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 ...

When land grabbing banishes communities from their homes, the surrounding environment and biodiversity are left at the mercy of destructive industries Mining is emerging as a major risk factor for ...

At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared* around the world last year defending their land, communities or the environment, a new report by Global Witness reveals. Today ...