Supported projects

BRUSSELS – Today, the commercial seed market is dominated by five agricultural conglomerates: BASF, Bayer/Monsanto, DowDuPont/Corteva, Syngenta/ChemChina and Limagrain. In Europe alone, they dominate 95% of the vegetable seed supply. But why is this the case, and what does it have to do with ...

BELGRADE - Cocaine production and trafficking has reached record levels, with organised crime groups from the Western Balkans playing a major role in the EU market, working with Dutch groups. The recent hacking of the encrypted messaging platform Sky ECC has revealed the inner workings of criminal ...

MADRID - The surrogacy landscape in Europe reveals a complex interplay of ethical issues and varied legal frameworks as the demand for surrogacy services continues to grow in the global North. This investigation examens the surrogacy practices in Spain, Greece, Ukraine, and Georgia, highlighting ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA / VALENI - As the European Union grows eastward, many children in Eastern Europe are left behind in their home countries while their parents go to Western Europe for better economic opportunities.

RIGA - In February 2023, the European Union agreed on the 10th package of sanctions against Russian goods, including the import of bitumen. Despite these bans, 29,5 thousand tonnes of bitumen worth $7.8 million were exported from Russia to Latvia in 2023, as calculated by The Chronicles.Media using ...

TANGIER - When fishmonger Mohsin Fikri is crushed in a rubbish truck, the Riffins have had enough. They demand that their region finally be developed after decades of backwardness: they want more jobs, better healthcare and, most importantly, recognition of their historic struggle against ...

ONLINE – The goal of this fellowship programme was to train a first cohort of 3 environmental journalists working in different European newsrooms so they could involve citizens in their public-interest investigations by turning communities into active researchers.

LIVNO - In Bosnia and Herzegovina, many quails are killed by Italian hunters, and environmentalists are concerned that wildlife crime is rapidly growing out of control. A team of investigative journalists travelled to Bosnia and Serbia and busted an illegal hunting operation.

ROME — Five dynamic workshops took place during the environmental investigative journalism festival “Le Parole Giuste”, on 27-29 of March 2025 in Rome.

TALINN - AMSTERDAM- A new and powerful type of drugs is rapidly emerging in Europe: nitazenes. In this joint investigation with Bellingcat and Postimees, the team looked at where these drugs are coming from and who they’re affecting. 

ATHENS - The European Union is deploying AI-driven technologies along its borders in an to attempt to control migration flows, raising legal and ethical concerns about the impact on migrants' rights. While these systems are promoted as improving efficiency and security, they have raised concerns ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA – This investigation reveals widespread illegal gravel extraction from riverbeds in Romania, exacerbated by corrupt practices and poor law enforcement. Ongoing dredging is causing serious damage, threatening freshwater resources, agriculture, and biodiversity.

AGADIR - Grown mainly in the Souss region of Morocco, tomatoes have become one of the Kingdom's most widely grown and exported vegetables. What is wrong with the environment and agriculture if Europeans continue to import them - and eat them in winter?

BRUSSELS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign. This campaign was led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations. Their goal was to water down a proposal to ban "forever chemicals" in the EU ...

BERLIN/PRAGUE – This investigation examines migration trends in the care sector, focusing on foreign workers in Germany, the migration of older people to the Czech Republic and the dependence of the Czech healthcare system on foreign professionals.

ONLINE/LONDON – Dark Green was a free online training programme from The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). It focused specifically on helping journalists to more effectively follow the money in their environmental and climate investigations. 

AMSTERDAM - What happens when one of the millions of migrant workers living and working in the Netherlands - often in dangerous jobs - is permanently injured in an accident at work? This investigation sheds light on workplace accidents among migrant workers in the Netherlands.

CHURCHILL/DULUTH/NUUK - Some places in the world, due to their strategic location, are proving to be unexpected havens in the face of the relentless onslaught of climate change.

KYIV / ONLINE — Internews Ukraine launched "The Green Watch: Environmental Investigative Program", training 20 environmental journalists through a series of nine workshops to address critical ecological issues and help them develop impactful, high-quality materials.

KIAMBU - Across Europe - the world's largest coffee market - millions of people start their day with an espresso or cappuccino. But behind Europeans' ever-growing love affair with coffee lies a bitter truth about environmental degradation and human exploitation.

ILE-ALATAU - This project shows that the protection of a special natural heritage – namely the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan, — is in Europe's strong interest, as it might help to make European apple growing more environmentally friendly.

GAZA - Nadia AlHassanat was born in Gaza during the First Intifada. In her twenties, she fled her conservative family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Today, she has been living in Belgium for eight years. The only person she stayed in touch with by phone is her older sister Fatma, who ...

DÜSSELDORF – Investigate Europe's 'Arming the World' project reveals how German arms giant Rheinmetall has been quietly pursuing its global expansion strategy by supplying ammunition factories abroad, away from public scrutiny.

MURANGO - Kenya, the largest exporter of avocados in Africa and the sixth largest in the world, has seen extensive deforestation as vast tracts of land are converted to avocado farms, and this is just one of the environmental and social costs of Europe's avocado obsession.

BRUSSELS - In this investigation, a diverse group of journalists analysed climate risk reports, academic literature and EU strategies for climate adaption to grasp the current state of adaptation in Europe. They also looked at local climate adaptation in Oradea, Romania, Loulé, Portugal and Rostock ...

ASUNCIÓN - The investigation reveals the links between the European car industry and massive deforestation in Paraguay's Chaco region. It reveals how major luxury car brands such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz buy leather from Italian companies, which in turn source the material from Paraguayan companies ...

ROME / PRAGUE / RIGA - A joint investigation by Investigace, IrpiMedia and The Insider has revealed how thousands of European and American small arms were smuggled into Russia and used in the war with Ukraine.

IHOSY - What can possibly be wrong about planting trees? This investigation digs deeper into a conflict unfolding in southern Madagascar, between the local community and an Italian multinational. As similar green projects multiply, this case highlights a critical challenge.

QUINCHÍA – How sustainable are the sustainability certification programmes set up by the coffee producers themselves — can coffee lovers trust the Nespresso AAA label? 

BARAY - Billionaires, luxury tour operators and airlines legitimise their CO₂ emissions with carbon credits from the Hadzabe, a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania who hardly emit any CO₂ themselves.