Asia Focus
How Newsrooms are Uncovering Asia’s Climate and Environmental Crises, from Illegal Sand Mining to Sinking Cities
Outlets across the region are collaborating to investigate the environmental harms that cross borders.
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environmental investigations
16 posts
GIJC25
‘Every Reporter has an AI Story to Tell’: Tips from an Award-Winning Journalist on the Risks of AI
Karen Hao — one of the world’s leading voices on the impacts and potential harms of artificial intelligence — speaks to GIJN ahead of her appearance at GIJC25 in Malaysia.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Researching Massive Water Consumption by Data Centers
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offer insights into sources and techniques for investigating water usage by major tech companies’ data centers.
How They Did It
Uncovering the Hidden Environmental Impact of an Industrial-scale Hog Farm
An award-winning project exposed how a US-governor’s pig farming company polluted groundwater, revealing issues of political influence and regulatory neglect.
News & Analysis Reporting Tools & Tips
Veteran Environmental Journalists Offer Tips on Covering the Second Trump Administration
Covering Trump 2.0 poses stark challenges for news outlets, but many environmental journalists who reported on Trump between 2016 and 2020 can offer perspective.
Climate Research
Investigating How Conflict and War Contribute to Methane Emissions
New remote sensing techniques are enabling researchers to monitor how armed conflict can be a driver of greenhouse gas emissions like methane.
Reporting Tools & Tips Research
Exposing the Money Behind Environmental Destruction, Part II: Investigating Investors
In this installment of a Pulitzer Center series, reporters Jelter Meers and Madeleine Ngeunga reveal tactics in investigating the financial incentives fueling environmental damage.
GIJC23 Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Environmental Crimes: Tips From Reporters Covering the Amazon
Two reporters whose investigative work has exposed systemic land grabbing and illegal mining in the Amazon share their tips.
Case Studies News & Analysis
Case Studies: Investigating Where Garbage Goes Around the World
GIJN looks at three different reports from Europe and Latin America that track where our garbage goes around the world and investigate the implications for people and the environment that waste can present.
Case Studies
2022’s Best Investigative Stories from Southeast Asia
GIJN’s Indonesian editor, Kholikul Alim, offers his editor’s picks for the best investigative journalism from Southeast Asia in 2022.