Supported projects

ROTTERDAM / RIMINI / FAIRBOURNE - The investigation looks at three cities that are all vulnerable to increased flooding as the sea level rises. It analyses the municipal policies designed to protect the cities from flooding, demonstrating that greater protection is linked to a higher economic value ...

ZUGDIDI - The 250-kilometre border between Abkhazia and Georgia has been dividing the two countries for decades, making life increasingly difficult for the communities living along it. Caught between Russian pressure and the manoeuvrings of the ruling Georgian Dream party, those living near the ...

PRAGUE / KYIV – Across scarred landscapes where war has reshaped both land and lives, this cross-border series traces the invisible wounds left in soil and water and the fragile paths toward healing. From Ukraine’s frontlines to former Soviet military zones in Czechia, it follows how history lingers ...

ROME / PARIS / PRAGUE / SARAJEVO - The European transition toward a “green” automotive industry is often presented as a key climate strategy. Yet behind this narrative lies a fragmented environmental reality. While products evolve, production sites often remain tied to past industrial cycles: former ...

BRUSSELS - It is everywhere, yet invisible. Hawala, an ancient, trust-based money transfer system, moves vast sums of cash around the world every day, leaving almost no trace. No banks. No paper trail. Just a handshake and a code.

BULIISA - This investigation focuses on how oil development has reshaped communities in western Uganda, and on why displaced Balaalo pastoralists are still waiting for promised compensation.

MAZARA DEL VALLO – This investigation reveals that Mazara's renowned red shrimp brand is becoming increasingly dependent on global supply chains, Libyan waters and opaque practices. Declining local catches and rising costs are pushing this famous Italian fishery into crisis.

BUCHAREST / PRAGUE / WARSAW - The Polluter Profits Project is a data investigation that uncovers how billions of euros from the EU Modernisation Fund, one of the main sources of public decarbonisation funding for lower-income member states, have been channelled towards polluting industries.

KILEMBE - Since the first measurements were taken in 1906, more than 90% of the ice in the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has disappeared. Experts predict it will be gone entirely within a decade.

CERRO DE PASCO - The city of Cerro de Pasco lies at an altitude of 4,380 metres in the harsh climate of the Peruvian Andes. It is one of the highest cities in the world, but also one of the most polluted, as there is a huge pit right in the centre of the city.

AMSTERDAM / MAE SOT - A message on Instagram: "Hi darling. I’ve been thinking about you a lot today… Are you thinking of me too?" It's a typical scam. But these scammers are victims themselves, often lured by false promises and imprisoned in scam centres in Southeast Asia.

HAVANA - The US is imposing an oil embargo on Cuba with the aim of bringing about regime change. Professor Domínguez López of the University of Havana stresses that the current problems cannot be viewed in isolation from more than sixty years of US sanctions. Those sanctions have never given Cuba ...

CACOAL - This investigation delves into the supply chain of Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), a US green fuel producer and joint venture between fossil fuel company Valero and multinational rendering company Darling Ingredients.

SOZAK - Vlast and EIF's latest investigation, published in partnership with the French media outlet Reporterre, focuses on the French multinational company Orano (formerly Areva) and its joint venture, Katco, in Kazakhstan. The investigation reveals that Katco was convicted of several environmental ...

MADRID - When a military coup took place in Spain in 1936, followed by a civil war, as many as 2,400 volunteers left our country to fight on the side of the democratically elected Second Republic (1931–1939), first with the militias in the Basque Country and Catalonia, and later with the ...

NEW YORK / BRUSSEL - A study of bias in Western media reporting. Using a case study on the war in Afghanistan, we examine how journalists reported on the fight against ‘terrorism’ during America’s longest war and investigate the structural patterns that have shaped the narrative surrounding this ...

LIERNEUX - Europe wants to reduce its dependence on foreign supplies of key raw materials. That is why Member States are looking into what can be mined within their borders. Senne Starckx investigated the possibilities in Belgium.

PERMIAN BASIN / LONDON / BRUSSELS – The EU methane regulation, in force since August 2024, requires energy firms to monitor, report and verify methane emissions at their drilling sites and conduct regular leak detection surveys. It will also require importers to obtain methane-intensity data from ...

BRUSSELS / BARCELONA / ROME / ZURICH – This investigation looks into the wave of political response that swept Europe during and in the aftermath of the 2024 tractors protest, and that dismantled key environmental policy under the guise of protecting farmers.

QAYYARAH – Wedged between an oil field and a refinery, this Iraqi town has paid the price for its country's petroleum wealth for decades. The facilities blanket the surrounding air with toxic gases and pump oily wastewater into the adjacent Tigris River. The industry that gave Qayyarah its existence ...

SANTIAGO DE CHILE - On the American continent, the large northward migration flow is gradually drying up, due to Trump’s tough anti-immigration measures. But what about other migration flows in the region, between Latin American countries themselves?

KINSHASA - Marlies Geyskens travels to Kinshasa, a city of millions that has been struggling with a growing mountain of rubbish in recent years. There, she follows two local artists who make costumes from recycled materials.

ACCRA - In Destination Ghana, we follow four people from the African diaspora. Each has a different life story, but there is also something that connects them: none of them has ever set foot on the African continent

PEJË / KUKËS - The White Drin River is turning into an open sewage channel. Untreated wastewater, plastic waste and chemical pollutants are damaging ecosystems, public health and local economies, while pollution continues to cross the border into Albania. The investigation covered fieldwork from ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA − This investigation revelas that small towns in the Transylvanian mountains are hubs for a chaotic mushroom trade, both in Hungary and Romania.

BOGOTA - Just as in the rest of Latin America, Pentecostal churches are on the rise in Colombia. They promote a personal relationship with God, place great emphasis on the emotional aspect, and promote prophecies and miracles. However, many of these churches also have clear political objectives.

MONTROSE / MADRID – Europe reportedly plays host to one in four of the world’s golf courses – with almost 9,000 peppered across the continent. More than 1,450 – almost one in five – including some of the world’s most iconic, can be found in Spain, Italy, and Scotland, where the sport originated.

KAMPALA - Uganda has for years hosted the largest refugee population in Africa, long celebrated as a regional success story thanks to its progressive open-door policy. But sweeping global cuts to development aid, most dramatically the dismantling of USAID under Trump, have plunged that system of ...

IKEBIRI / POTENZA - From the dry hills of southern Italy's Basilicata region to the flood-stricken communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta, oil giant Eni has left a trail of pollution and environmental degradation spanning continents. This cross-border investigation examines the consequences.

COSTACHE NEGRI - As floods caused by climate change get worse across Europe, thousands of farm animals are dying without being seen, counted or getting any money for it. The deaths of livestock remain a systematic blind spot in disaster data and emergency planning mainly focusing on human losses.