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Our AI-based solution 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 ...
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 ...
Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand in the way of progress at COP30 Imagine earning the responsibility of ...
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 ...
Trump’s obsession with rare earth minerals makes sense when you understand their role in modern military technology Critical minerals have in recent years been central to global visions of a greener ...
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 ...
Consumers in the UK are still at risk of buying goods linked to deforestation, despite a law introduced in 2021 to clean up supply chains and ban such trade. New analysis from Global Witness reveals ...
The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at Manila airport this morning after an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant is a critical step towards accountability for land and ...
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 ...
As Trump's inauguration looms, climate activists fear for the Paris Agreement and Biden's climate laws – but, as we lay out, many more changes could be afoot President Trump's second term could bring ...