
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.
New remote sensing techniques are enabling researchers to monitor how armed conflict can be a driver of greenhouse gas emissions like methane.
In this installment of a Pulitzer Center series, reporters Jelter Meers and Madeleine Ngeunga reveal tactics in investigating the financial incentives fueling environmental damage.
Two reporters whose investigative work has exposed systemic land grabbing and illegal mining in the Amazon share their tips.
In this abridged version, GIJN offers tips from our latest reporting guide, on how journalists can investigate their country’s climate change pledges and hold governments accountable.
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.
GIJN’s Indonesian editor, Kholikul Alim, offers his editor’s picks for the best investigative journalism from Southeast Asia in 2022.
Although watchdog reporting in Bangladesh faces a series of challenges, all of which make investigative journalism in the country increasingly difficult, reporters in 2022 continued to produce serious exposés on critical issues as corruption, environmental crime, and systemic injustice.
Fourteen newsrooms and independent journalists from 13 countries collaborated on the Oceans, Inc. project, to uncover stories about illegal fishing and forced slavery on the South China Sea and the oceans near Antarctica. Their cross-border reporting won the 2022 SOPA Award for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.
Rainforest Investigations Network fellow Hyury Potter used data reporting and machine learning to investigate the link between clandestine airstrips and illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon during the past two years.
Amid Ukraine’s whole-of-society wartime reorganization, experts and activists are using their skills to track the impact of the conflict on the country’s national parks and biospheres and to document possible environmental war crimes.