Seed Grab: What's Behind the EU Push to Deregulate Gene-edited Plants?
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 ...
The Role of Governments in the Xylella Fastidiosa Crisis
ALICANTE/BARI – Southern Europe, especially Italy and Spain, is facing a growing environmental crisis — the rapid desiccation of olives as well as other kinds of trees. In Italy it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Environmental Investigators: A Citizen Journalism Fellowship
ONLINE – The goal of this fellowship programme is to train a first cohort of 3 environmental journalists working in different European newsrooms so they can involve citizens in their ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
Illegal Gravel And Sand Extraction in Hungary and Romania
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 ...
Morocco-EU Agricultural Corridor: Looking Into Imbalances
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dark Green - Course For Journalists On Climate Finance
ONLINE/LONDON – Dark Green is a new free online training programme from The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). It focuses specifically on helping journalists to more effectively follow the money ...
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 ...
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.