Supported projects

VIGO / TAIPEI - Together, Spain and Taiwan account for almost two-thirds of the world’s reported blue shark catch, turning one of the ocean’s most widely distributed predators into a global commodity.

BUENOS AIRES - Vaca Muerta is a vast area of Argentine Patagonia, home to the world’s second-largest reserve of unconventional natural gas and the fourth-largest reserve of unconventional oil. In 2012, the Argentine government began investing in the region, with the stated aim of using these ...

WALANDAWE - A year-long investigation traces nickel from deforested forests and Indigenous land in Sulawesi through China’s battery industry to Volkswagen’s electric cars in Europe, exposing the hidden environmental cost of the green transition.

BUDAPEST - Flavescence dorée, a devastating grapevine disease, is spreading across Central Europe, threatening vineyards and the livelihoods of winegrowers.

SAN PETERSBURG / ALESSANDRIA - Chemicals made in Russia keep crossing the EU to reach an Italian plant, despite the war in Ukraine and years of sanctions. Middlemen in Germany and Israel, trucks through Estonia and a price that rose eightfold kept the supply going.

GALICIA / SANTAREM - A cross-border investigation into how eucalyptus expansion, rural abandonment, economic dependence and difficulties in enforcing forestry rules interact with wildfire risk.

LUANDA - A cross-border investigation reveals European, British and US oil giants have been routinely spilling oil in Angola’s oceans for 13 years, leaving residents ill and unable to eat. Multiple complaints have been ignored, while fishermen are asked to clean up under ‘voluntary work agreements’.

PUERTOLLANO / VENICE / NAPAJEDLA / MUNICH -Sold as a green industrial revolution, Europe's hydrogen rollout is increasingly a story about lobbying, import dependency and who controls the pipes.

BUCHAREST / SARAJEVO - Mega hydropower projects conceived decades ago during the communist era are now being resumed and developed, ignoring current priorities for water, biodiversity protection, and public spending.

GENEVA - The IPCC is one of the most respected scientific institutions in climate research. An investigation into its inner workings now reveals strong links to the Saudi government within its ranks, as well as apparent contradictions of the IPCC’s application of its conflict of interest rules.

BRUSSELS / RIBERALTA - This investigation examines the European frontier of green finance: the carbon credit market is targeting Bolivia’s indigenous territories, whose rights are at risk of being trampled on. One controversial project shows the dangers involved to frontline communities.

ELENITE/MAMAIA - Mutilated by political decisions that generate huge profits for certain companies, the Romanian and Bulgarian beaches on the Black Sea have become graveyards for tourists who are left at the mercy of natural phenomena exacerbated by the authorities.

RUŽOMBEROK - As demand for paper packaging grows, pressure on Europe’s forests increases. An investigation into Mondi SCP in Slovakia reveals the source of its wood and raises questions about the transparency of logging practices and the future of protected forests.

VALLETTA / LISBON / NICOSIA - In Southern Europe, water scarcity demands public investment and raises groundwater prices, but who profits? A three-country investigation identifies commercial actors with disproportionate water privileges in the EU’s most water-scarce countries: Malta, Cyprus & ...

VYHIV / GYE-SUR-SEINE - This investigation uncovers the hidden journey of charcoal, from unpermitted kilns in Ukraine to supermarket shelves across Europe, and the alleged illegal practices behind a market with weak traceability.

RRJOLL - From Rrjoll to Himarë, this investigation exposes how Albania's tourism model is driving the transformation of protected areas into luxury “resorts”, enabled by legal reforms and government decisions that favour private interests over environmental protection.

GALICIA / IZMIR - As wildfires intensify across the Mediterranean, communities in Spain and Turkey are developing their own strategies to prevent fires, restore damaged ecosystems and protect rural livelihoods, often filling gaps left by public policies.

MISKOLC – Four years after one of Central Europe's most serious river pollution disasters, a cross-border investigation examines what caused the contamination, whether the river has truly recovered, and what lessons remain unanswered.

BRESCIA / MARSEILLE / ZWIJNDRECHT - From Italy to Belgium and France, the European principle of environmental liability is only applied by halves: it requires companies to make contaminated private sites safe, but leaves citizens and communities to bear the final cost.

ROSIGNANO SOLVAY / CANTABRIA / LA ROCHELLE - In Italy, Solvay’s Rosignano plant, operating since 1912, produces soda ash and high-purity hydrogen peroxide for the semiconductor industry. Decades of legally discharged limestone and gypsum residues created the site’s famous “white beaches”, turning ...

ATHENS / RAVENNA / VALENCIA - The European research project UnderSec links surveillance of the Greek port of Lavrio, Ravenna and Valencia to technologies "battle tested" by the Israel Defence Forces, amid a lack of transparency and the circumvention of environmental protection regulations.

TIMOSOARA / SZEGED - Industrial pig farms report clean environmental papers, but nearby residents complain of odours and pollution, while groundwater shows nitrate contamination, and monitoring relies on self-reported data.

SKOPJE / VRANJE / BONN - This cross border investigation reveals a river system under severe and long term pressure, where local neglect, institutional weakness, and industrial malpractice converge into a single cross border environmental crisis.

ROME / MADRID / LONDON - In Italy, Spain and the UK, meat, eggs and dairy are increasingly produced by large corporations that use industrial farming methods and wield growing power over multibillion-euro supply chains. For animals, more industrial farming usually means more suffering.

HOTAZEL - Demand for manganese, a critical mineral for the green transition, has surged in recent years. But in South Africa’s Kalahari basin, home to the world’s largest reserves and a major direct supplier to Europe, mining is depleting and contaminating underground water sources that local ...

CATALONIA / MAURITIUS – Since China halted exports during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mauritius has become the world's leading exporter of long-tailed macaques for biomedical research, supplying close to half of all animals traded worldwide in 2024.

ULCINJ / CERVIA – Two salt marshes, two different environmental crises. A cross-border investigation combining satellite imagery, field reporting and environmental economics reveals the hidden costs of wetland degradation across Europe.

NIŠ / PRISTINA - In the border regions between Kosovo and Serbia, illegal logging has evolved into a highly prevalent and complex issue, leaving visible damage that grows more apparent over time.

TULKARM - The Nitzanei Shalom industrial hub, built on Palestinian land in the mid-1980s, hosts Israeli factories. This investigation examines allegations that the hub is polluting the surrounding farmland, as well as its previously undocumented ties to European companies and markets.

ROME - From human rights violations and forced labour to frequent illegal fishing, squid fishing in international waters is one of the least transparent food supply chains in existence. However, Europe and the United States are becoming the main buyers of squid linked to human rights violations and ...