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Mine games: Europe’s hunt for critical raw materials

  • Data Journalism
  • Energy
  • Industry

KIRUNA - This investigation sheds light on what lies beneath the EU’s ‘green mining’ ambitions, and offers a unique perspective on the continent’s quest for critical raw materials, such as lithium, nickel, copper and rare earth elements needed for the future.

looking for alternatives to China and Russia to dig crucial minerals

Soviet Industrial Legacy Bringing Environmental Troubles For Moldova and Ukraine

  • Energy

DNESTROVSK – This project looks at the environmental issues caused by two industrial objects which both stem from the Soviet era, Moldovan Thermal Power Plant in the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Republic in Moldova, and a granite quarry in the floodplain of the beautiful Yuzhny Bug River, in the Nikolaev district of Ukraine.

A neocolonial oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania

  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Human Rights

KIMINA - In 2006, British company Tullow Oil discovered oil reserves in the Albertine region in northwestern Uganda. In early 2022, Total signed an agreement with Tanzania and Uganda and Chinese state-owned CNOOC to begin construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The project will create the largest oil-heated pipeline with a length of 1,443 kilometers between Hoima in Uganda and Tanga in Tanzania, from where crude oil will be exported. But not without consequences.

Emerging Energy Cooperatives: Bright Future or Great Failure?

  • Energy
  • Environment

WARSAW - Dreams of growing megawatts like tomatoes on a windowsill. Will energy cooperatives give power to the people?

Silviu Matei

How 'green' investments are financing big carbon

  • Energy
  • Environment

MILAN - Asset management companies in Europe are using semantic tricks and regulatory loopholes to sell 'green' investments that actually fund the hydrocarbon industry. Italy's Eurizon, a subsidiary of Intesa SanPaolo, is a case in point. 

Glencore: 'we were not aware'

  • Energy
  • Healthcare
  • Industry

EL CERREJÓN — Glencore, the world's largest mining company, has a long story of corruption, human rights violation and environmental damage. This investigation looks at the scale of  the environmental disaster that Glencore's mine in Colombia causes for the local area.

Impact of Large Industrial Facilities on the Danube River

  • Energy
  • Environment

PAKS / LINZ –  This investigation looked at the impacts of specific large industrial facilities along the Danube in Hungary, Austria and Germany, as well as legal regulation.

Hydropower controversy in Georgia

  • Energy
  • Environment

TBILISI - The electricity generated by at least ninety-four hydropower plants covers 80% of Georgian demand. Still, the ruling party Georgian Dream is pushing for more investment.

When the Sun Goes Down

  • Energy
  • Environment

MADRID - Amazon boasts about having 15 photovoltaic solar plants in Spain to supply energy to its workplaces.

La Marea

Green port - mirage or miracle?

  • Energy
  • Industry
  • Environment

ROTTERDAM - The Port of Rotterdam claims to champion sustainability but is the reality matching its marketing?