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 ...

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 ...

The mining industry has a long legacy of exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental destruction, with Global Witness’s own history rooted in exposing the blood diamond trade. This time, we’re ...

This figure is set to increase as the government courts foreign investment in its mining industry. In early 2024, the government bowed to industry pressure and agreed to begin fast tracking mining ...

Tons of heavy rare earth oxidesTwo years after our last report, we have revisited this region’s toxic mining landscape. New trade data, satellite imagery and community testimony reveal that the ...

Fossil fuel supermajors' emissions estimated to kill 11.5 million people by 2100 Cumulative global death toll by the end of the century associated with the emissions from burning the forecast oil and ...