As the world's leading owner of transition mineral production, China must keep the energy transition green. Can it solve ...

Every year around the world, people and their communities are murdered, disappeared and attacked for trying to protect their ...

The fallout from Middle East tensions underscores the peril of fossil fuel dependence. So why are US law makers retreating ...

The rising demand for transition minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper has placed mineral-rich countries at the heart of geopolitical competition ...

With climate change impacts steadily rising, the billions pocketed by fossil fuels is an insult to the communities worst hit. It's time to make polluters pay ...

The final, saddest truth is that this viewpoint has brought us to the brink of collapse. We are not just in a climate emergency. We are in the foothills of the sixth mass extinction, and these ...

The renewable energy boom has triggered a new rush for resources, as countries race to secure their supply of transition minerals. But this push for clean technology could quickly turn dirty, unless ...

For decades, scientists have been documenting changes in the earth’s climate and warning of the effects.Their findings underpin government declarations of climate emergency and policy responses.. But ...

A six-month investigation by Global Witness followed the outsourcing of this highly toxic industry across the Chinese border into Myanmar. There, heavy rare earth mining has exploded so quickly that ...

Myanmar’s lucrative trade in HREE – worth $1.4 billion in 2023 – risks financing conflict and destruction in a highly volatile region. In 2018 Myanmar’s civilian-led government banned exports and ...

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 ...