Supported projects

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.

TASHKENT / TERMZ / KABUL – The Taliban’s Qosh Tepa Canal is without a doubt a mega-project. It is being built in Afghanistan but will be fed by water from the Amu Darya – the region’s largest river, which lies on the border with Uzbekistan. For Uzbek farmers, this threatens to be a disaster. Europe ...

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 ...

GUAYAQUIL – As European demand for tropical shrimp surges, Ecuador has become the continent's leading supplier. However, this booming industry exacts a heavy toll on vital mangrove ecosystems and the coastal communities that rely on them for their livelihoods.

BRUSSELS - Our Big Five is the compelling and surprising story of the most iconic inhabitants of our natural world. Our Big Five: the fox, red deer, wolf, seal, and lynx. Paul Cobbaert sets out in wonder to find these animals. He wants to know where they live, whether they’re endangered, and how ...

AMBETHAN - Europe’s “sustainable mobility transition” is contributing to India’s toxic problem. While the European Green Deal promises “zero-emission mobility by 2035”, the supply chain is creating permanent contamination zones in India.

BERLIN - Shortly before Hungary’s parliamentary election in early 2026, the Berlin-based journalism platform Clean Energy Wire CLEW joined forces with Hungary’s investigative newsroom Átlátszó to empower journalists covering the climate and energy stakes of the vote.

PARIS - Reporters d’Espoirs has launched a training programme designed to strengthen French journalists’ capacity to report on biodiversity and environmental issues. The project combines a nationwide “Biodiversity Tour” across 15 regional newsrooms and journalism schools in France with an online ...

CHARLEROI / FARCIENNES - As Google rapidly expands its data centres in the Belgian region of Hainaut residents are watching farmland, wetlands and entire neighbourhoods disappear behind concrete walls and barbed wire.

PRAGUE / ALYTUS / HELSINKI / ROME - The cross-border investigative project explores one of the least discussed consequences of Europe’s return to nuclear energy: what to do with radioactive waste that remains dangerous for tens of thousands of years.

COLOGNE - The "5vor12" Climate Briefings for journalists organised by Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Germany & Austria, are expanding into a cross-border, English-language format to connect international journalists and media professionals.

GHENT / TERNEUZEN - Our region has everything it needs to be a world leader in green chemistry. At least, that is what the government and industry unanimously claim. We put this to the test in North Sea Port, the binational port that says it is fully committed to a circular future. Will the chemical ...

NARDÒ / STUTTGART – Natura 2000 constitutes the biggest network of protected natural areas in the European Union. But under the guise of public interest, these nature protection zones are increasingly being threatened by private industrial investments. It is the case of Nardò’s countryside, on the ...

KECSKEMÉT - A cross-border investigation into failed water policies and grassroots solutions in the Sandy Plains region of Hungary reveals that, as the drought worsens, the authorities continue to drain rainwater. Meanwhile, communities are racing to save it.

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 ...

SARAJEVO - For years, real estate companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina owned by Arab citizens have been selling what they call a “dream house in Bosnia” to buyers from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

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 ...

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.