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Augmenta is an AI agent that can take a dataset and perform basic research on each entry in it using a search engine and the ...
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 Sofia Iztok thermal power plant, powered by fossil gas. (c) Damian Vodenitcharov. Damian Vodenitcharov The EU’s imports of US liquefied gas are creating emissions that could cause more than €100 ...
Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk”* companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia, with over $23 billion in financing provided ...
Bulldozers used for clearing forest on Cresud’s farms in Salta province, Argentina. Greenpeace Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the ...
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 ...
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 ...
We share our predictions for climate disinformation in 2025, with a new US president, extreme weather and COP30 all heaping pressure on social media platforms ...
Generative AI tools are increasingly part of the way we search for information – from search engines providing “AI overviews” to powering chatbots in instant messenger services. As many people have ...
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 ...