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PARIS - 7,000 protected areas are under threat from oil and gas projects worldwide. 120 countries were included in the investigation data analysed by a large cross-border team of independent journalists and media outlets.

SARAJEVO / SKOPJE - This cross‑border investigation explores why rare and endangered plant species in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia are vanishing despite existing legal frameworks.

BRATISLAVA / PRAGUE / BUDAPEST / WARSAW - Four leading newsrooms placed scientific-grade air monitors outside elementary schools. For four months, the data didn’t blink. PM2.5 levels stayed dangerously high, right where children learn and play.

TARANTO / TURCENI / PRAGUE - New investigation reveals that the EU's flagship carbon market, meant to cut emissions and drive climate neutrality, is riddled with secrecy. It is also plagued by conflicts of interest and loopholes that let polluters underreport emissions and save millions.

PARIS / BRUSSELS - This past decade, planting initiatives have grown more and more popular, and in 2020, the EU launched its own, the Three Billion Trees pledge. But as researchers have shown, not all planting projects are equal.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE / ROMA /MADRID - Behind the glossy export numbers of Chilean salmon lies a trail of environmental wreckage, dangerous working conditions, and fish so drenched in antibiotics they could threaten consumers’ health.

CAPE TOWN - The Fairtrade certification system arrived in South Africa in the mid-2000s with the promise of helping dismantle centuries-old inequalities. Yet, twenty years later, many farm workers feel its promises have largely remained so.

LONDON / BRUSSELS - This investigation resulted in creation of what is the most comprehensive map and landfill risk assessment analysis produced publicly of the region to date, revealing the stats and hidden threats these waste sites pose to water, ecosystems, and communities continent-wide.

VRATSA / TULCEA / DNIESTER – Sturgeon fishing - for a species threatened with extinction - has been banned across the entire Danube and Black Sea basin for many years. But a new cross-border investigation proves that illegal fishing practices persist.

ARKHANGAI - This cross-border investigation reveals that the price paid by European luxury brands for cashmere sourced in Mongolia, is very low compared to their margin and revenues. The benefits accumulate of top of the value chain while Mongolian herders and factories continue to face debts.

BUCHAREST / BARCELONA / MILAN / PARIS – By dropping clothes into collection bins, we often believe to be doing a good deed, “a small gesture that transforms the world”. But does it really? This investigation's findings reveal systemic failures in this presumably sustainable system.

FRIULI / SALZBURG - Europe’s efforts to save the northern bald ibis are undone by rampant poaching in Italy, a deeply rooted social phenomenon that law enforcement fails to tackle.

BAHIA / CREMONA - This investigation uncovers how a coalition of timber traders and representatives from the musical instrument industry has been lobbying governments in Europe and worldwide to reject the proposal or to water down existing measures.

BRINDISI / BARCELONA - This investigation focuses on drought issues in Southern Europe and such aspects of it as desalination, EU funding and the market for technological solutions, conflicts of interest and anti-fraud legislation, and environmental concerns.

RESISTENCIA / FLORENCE - This investigation exposes how a lucrative tannin supply chain, rooted in Argentina’s Gran Chaco region thrives due to weak oversight and systematic deforestation. Follow the journey of timber from endangered dry forests to factories and luxury brands that profit from it.

SKOPJE / BELGRADE / SOFIA - Illegal waste disposal and burning pose a significant environmental and public health risk in Southeast Europe, with North Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria being prime examples of this issue. Moreover, criminal waste trafficking close links to other organised crimes.

VENETO / EMILIA-ROMAGNA - After Romania tightened its poaching laws in the Danube Delta, hundreds of fishermen crossed borders in search of work and dignity, settling along Italy’s Po River. But what began as an escape from corruption and collapsing local livelihoods has turned into a paradox.

FERLO / KANEM - By tracking billions in funding, visiting remote sites, and speaking with those directly affected, a cross-border team of journalists examined the gap between the Great Green Wall’s grand promises and its on-the-ground reality.

TRIESTE / INGOLSTADT / VIENNA – Despite the EU’s commitment to phasing out fossil fuels, the Transalpine Pipeline continues to transport crude oil across the Alps, with no indication of stopping. The system is still being fed with public funds intended to end the fossil era.

VICENZA / LOTE PARSHURAM - What happens to a Western chemical plant after it closes down due to causing an environmental disaster? Sometimes it travels to other continents. This investigation reveals how a PFAS factory implicated in an Italian environmental scandal was dismantled and rebuilt in ...