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Home Land and Environmental Defenders Secretly filmed footage shows Veolia pumping toxic pollutants into protected Colombian wetlands French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia a new Global Witness investigation has found 27 March 2025 Transition Minerals The critical minerals scramble How the race for resources is fuelling conflict and inequality 20 March 2025 Forests Forest destruction rivalling the size of Liverpool caused by UK imports last year 20 March 2025 Land and Environmental Defenders UK Court ruling on climate protestors sets dangerous precedent 10 March 2025 People and planet We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction and stand with the people fighting back. Trending investigations Forests Slash and sell A Canadian asset manager part run by green finance champion Mark Carney cleared thousands of football fields worth of tropical forest in Brazil our investigation can reveal. 08 November 2022 Transition Minerals A rush for lithium in Africa risks fuelling corruption and failing citizens Three emerging lithium mines in Zimbabwe Namibia and Democratic Republic of Congo DRC risk fuelling corruption and causing a range of other environmental social and governance problems. 14 November 2023 Land and Environmental Defenders How the militarisation of mining threatens Indigenous defenders in the Philippines With skyrocketing global demand for critical minerals vital to the green energy transition Indigenous groups and biodiversity are at risk in the Philippines.