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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 18/09/2026
The second investigated the impact of some of those hidden data centres in Mumbai, where the increased power demands of new data centres has prompted the local government to cancel the closures of two highly polluting coal power plants. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
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Leak reveals Amazon’s hidden data centres' impact on emissions
Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 18/09/2026
We published two stories as part of this project. The first used leaked internal data from Amazon Web Services to reveal that the company is using twice as many data centres worldwide as previously thought. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
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Amazon has twice as many data centres worldwide as previously reported
Amazon uses far more data centres across the globe—and has a bigger impact on the environment—than previously reported, leaked data reveals.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 18/09/2026
It's great to see two of our reporters, @lukewbarratt.bsky.social and @atikarehman.bsky.social, named as winners of a @coveringclimatenow.org award. We worked with @earthjournalism.bsky.social and journalists across Asia to investigate the environmental impact of a massive increase in data centres.
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samschramski.bsky.social @samschramski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow! Kudos to the #DarkSideoftheBoom team at @earthjournalism.bsky.social and the many partners across Asia who made this award possible. Quite the honor winning in the large projects and collaboration category. Special thanks to our partners at @source-material.org and the @pulitzercenter.org.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 13/08/2026
This story was a partnership with Bloomberg. Read their version here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dispute Over Counting Forest Carbon Roils Global Standard-Setter
Scientists and industry are sparring over climate accounting rules being developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 13/08/2026
“Harvesting and using wood for any purpose becomes carbon negative, and the more wood used the better.” Inside the battle between lobbyists and scientists at GHG Protocol over how to count emissions from deforestation. www.source-material.org/ghg-protocol...
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Lobbyists push for declaration that felling trees helps the climate
The timber industry’s influence over forest carbon accounting rules risks derailing global carbon calculations, scientists warn.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 13/08/2026
“It's nonsense”—how lobbyists pushed a leading emissions watchdog GHG Protocol to the brink of declaring that chopping down trees helps the climate. www.source-material.org/ghg-protocol...
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Lobbyists push for declaration that felling trees helps the climate
The timber industry’s influence over forest carbon accounting rules risks derailing global carbon calculations, scientists warn.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 22/06/2026
Ever wondered how Russia pays for the imports it needs to wage war on Ukraine? We did... and it led to some interesting conversations. "Ninety per cent of the customers are those who work with sanctioned goods” www.source-material.org/russia-sanct...
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‘There will be no trace’ – SourceMaterial
Undercover reporting reveals a parallel financial system moving illegal payments in and out of Russia—and backed by the Kremlin
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 22/06/2026
In Mozambique, TotalEnergies is building Africa's biggest gas project. But as well as jobs and investment, an unpublished UN report found that the development has brought about a wave of sexual exploitation. www.source-material.org/totalenergie...
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TotalEnergies project staff linked to sexual exploitation in Mozambique
Workers at Africa’s biggest energy project ‘offered jobs for sex’ as soldiers paid by French energy giant committed abuses.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 09/06/2026
"I was finding out who was snitching, who they were working for." Meet the Russian security guards, including ex-combatants of Wagner, who are stationed aboard Russia's shadow fleet ships to control the captain and make sure oil reaches its final port. www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
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Ex-mercenaries tighten Russia's grip on dark fleet
Former Wagner fighter stationed aboard tankers to prevent captains from co-operating with European enforcement
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 24/04/2026
The upshot? Essar today owes VTB even more – and authorities in Cyprus are looking closely at whether it broke the rules. Essar says it has complied with all of the applicable sanctions at all times and that it is winding down its VTB relationship [2/2]
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 24/04/2026
At the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Essar owed $3.1 billion to VTB, the Kremlin-controlled Russian bank. Our latest story, with the Guardian, reveals that its response to sanctions on VTB was to shift the loans out of the EU from Cyprus to Mauritius. www.source-material.org/essar-stanlo...
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UK oil refiner shifted Russian loans offshore – SourceMaterial
Essar shifted billions to tax haven following Ukraine invasion
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 01/04/2026
This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @politico.eu. Read their version here: www.politico.eu/article/seed...
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Seeds of doubt: The dark side of an Italian energy giant’s green jet fuel promise
Italian state-owned oil giant Eni presents its Kenyan biofuel project as a model for sustainable air travel. Many small farmers say it’s failed them.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 01/04/2026
In Kenya, poor farmers have gone hungry after signing up for a biofuel project with the Italian oil major Eni, SourceMaterial’s investigation has discovered. www.source-material.org/eni-italian-...
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How an Italian oil giant's African biofuel project left farmers stranded
SourceMaterial's investigation, based on interviews with 43 farmers, as well as biofuel experts, activists and lawyers, suggests the project is failing.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 31/03/2026
This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @politico.eu. Read their version here: www.politico.eu/article/seed...
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Seeds of doubt: The dark side of an Italian energy giant’s green jet fuel promise
Italian state-owned oil giant Eni presents its Kenyan biofuel project as a model for sustainable air travel. Many small farmers say it’s failed them.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 31/03/2026
As part of a flagship biofuel project, the Italian energy major Eni has handed out castor seeds to over a hundred thousand Kenyan farmers. In interviews with SourceMaterial, many farmers said the project has failed them. www.source-material.org/eni-italian-...
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How an Italian oil giant's African biofuel project left farmers stranded
SourceMaterial's investigation, based on interviews with 43 farmers, as well as biofuel experts, activists and lawyers, suggests the project is failing.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 31/03/2026
This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @politico.eu. Read their version here: www.politico.eu/article/seed...
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Seeds of doubt: The dark side of an Italian energy giant’s green jet fuel promise
Italian state-owned oil giant Eni presents its Kenyan biofuel project as a model for sustainable air travel. Many small farmers say it’s failed them.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 31/03/2026
Seeds of doubt: how the Italian oil giant Eni handed out castor seeds to over a hundred thousand Kenyan farmers to make biofuel from the harvest, before leaving many without income or food. www.source-material.org/eni-italian-...
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How an Italian oil giant's African biofuel project left farmers stranded
SourceMaterial's investigation, based on interviews with 43 farmers, as well as biofuel experts, activists and lawyers, suggests the project is failing.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 16/03/2026
This investigation was a partnership with @afp.com
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 16/03/2026
New: Last month, Indonesian authorities arrested 11 people on suspicion of bribery and disguising palm oil as a less strictly regulated byproduct. SourceMaterial can reveal that exporters targeted in this probe supplied major international companies. www.source-material.org/indonesian-e...
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Indonesian exporters in palm oil probe supplied European fuel majors
Indonesian exporters targeted in a palm oil bribery probe supplied major international companies, a SourceMaterial investigation has found.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 16/03/2026
This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @afp.com
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 16/03/2026
Indonesian exporters targeted in a palm oil bribery probe supplied major international companies, casting doubt on Europe’s ability to prevent fraud in its biofuels market, a SourceMaterial investigation has found. www.source-material.org/indonesian-e...
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Indonesian exporters in palm oil probe supplied European fuel majors
Indonesian exporters targeted in a palm oil bribery probe supplied major international companies, a SourceMaterial investigation has found.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 15/01/2026
Shell yesterday scrapped its sale of $500m of North Sea assets to Viaro Energy, owned by Italian entrepreneur Francesco Mazzagatti. Both parties cited changing market conditions. The move followed our investigation into Mazzagatti's career. www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
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North Sea Storm – SourceMaterial
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 26/12/2025
In Mozambique, the French energy company TotalEnergies funded troops responsible for grave human rights violations. @source-material.org and @lemonde.fr showed that TotalEnergies knew the soldiers they funded were accused of torturing, raping and killing — and kept paying them.
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'Don't look back or we'll shoot' - SourceMaterial
When Islamist insurgents unleashed terror on northern Mozambique, civilians living in the shadow of Africa’s biggest gas project thought troops paid by the French energy giant would protect them.…
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A major Tory donor has been sanctioned in the UK and EU for his alleged role in the Russian oil trade. The oil magnate Murtaza Lakhani was hit with a UK asset freeze and travel ban on the grounds that his activities were assisting Russia. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
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Major Tory donor sanctioned over role in Russian oil trade
The government sanctioning statement alleges that Murtaza Lakhani’s activities in the oil sector have supported the Kremlin
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 12/12/2025
🎉 Thrilled that SourceMaterial was Highly Commended at the British Journalism Awards for Energy & Environment Journalism! Huge thanks to our amazing team for all their hard work—onto the next story! ⚡🌿
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 01/12/2025
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Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 01/12/2025
Last year, we travelled to Mozambique to reveal how TotalEnergies funded troops it knew stood accused of rape and murder. Today, after reviewing SourceMaterial’s findings and reporting by Politico, the UK government announced it would withdraw a $1.15 billion loan to the project.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 01/12/2025
Amazon's environmental impact on France, like other places in the world, is bigger than it has previously acknowledged, leaked figures reveal. We shared these figures with @reporterre.net, who have published this story. reporterre.net/Amazon-explo...
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Amazon exploite 924 data centers dans le monde, dont 29 en France
Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, Amazon n’avait jamais révélé publiquement le nombre de centres de données qu’elle exploite. Tout juste étaient-ils estimés entre 100 et 475. Selon des documents exclusifs obtenus ...
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 25/11/2025
This story was published in partnership with The Guardian, whose version can be read here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 25/11/2025
NEW: Leaked documents reveal Amazon's "dirty energy empire". Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open—and fears AI is helping keep the world hooked on fossil fuels. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
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Leak reveals Amazon’s hidden data centres' impact on emissions
Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 24/11/2025
NEW: We've seen documents revealing Amazon's hidden data centres—and hidden impact on the environment. The AI giant has twice as many data centres as previously reported, our investigation found. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
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Amazon has twice as many data centres worldwide as previously reported
Amazon uses far more data centres across the globe—and has a bigger impact on the environment—than previously reported, leaked data reveals.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 21/11/2025
Nathan Gill has been jailed for accepting bribes to push the Kremlin's agenda. The money ultimately came from Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Putin. In 2022 we took a look at Medvedchuk's relationship with Glencore, the London-listed commodities giant. www.source-material.org/glencore-and...
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Glencore and the Order of Friendship – SourceMaterial
The trading giant’s lucrative deals with allies of Vladimir Putin When Vladimir Putin awarded Glencore’s billionaire boss the Order of Friendship it was seen as the Kremlin’s stamp of approval on an a...
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 14/11/2025
Thank you to BBC File on 4 Investigates journos Anna Meisel and Paul Kenyon and the rest of the brilliant BBC team who worked with us. And thank you to the workers and villagers in India who campaigned so hard and bravely told us their stories.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 14/11/2025
The investigation prompted the Environment Agency to launch a full review admitting UK tyres were being illegally diverted, with new oversight reforms starting October 1. MPs cited the findings in Parliament, a judicial review began, and Maharashtra’s government shut eight plants.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 14/11/2025
Undercover calls revealed exporters evading recycling rules. We collaborated with local journalists to film poisoned water, sick animals, and villagers suffering respiratory illnesses. Drone footage captured scorched landscapes; one explosion had killed mothers and children.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 14/11/2025
Working with a whistleblower and the BBC, we followed GPS trackers placed in UK tyre shipments, tracing them to illegal Indian plants. Documents falsely listed destinations, and UK tyres were even found openly traded on Facebook.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 14/11/2025
A tip-off led us to uncover one of Britain’s most overlooked environmental scandals: UK tyre exports ending up in illegal pyrolysis plants burning rubber to produce toxic oil. India had banned imports in 2022, yet our analysis of trade data showed shipments continued to surge.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 14/11/2025
We're thrilled to have won the Society of Editors Media Freedom Award 2025 for environment journalism! Our investigation into the millions of UK tyres being dumped in India - and boiled in highly dangerous conditions - with our ace BBC co-reporters had widespread impact.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 10/11/2025
We are supporting a new project convened by @earthjournalism.bsky.social in Asia Pacific, involving 11 news organisations in the region, looking into the environmental impact of the AI boom. There are more stories to come, but read the first few here: earthjournalism.net/special-repo...
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Dark Side of the Boom
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 04/11/2025
Our latest investigation pieces together the career of Francesco Mazzagatti, the 39-year-old entrepreneur poised to become owner of a terminal that supplies a fifth of Britain's gas. A trail that leads from a warehouse in Calabria to London's High Court. www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
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North Sea Storm – SourceMaterial
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 27/10/2025
NEW: We've seen a leaked internal strategy document from Amazon Web Services. It shows the company strategising about keeping the true water usage of its data centres secret from the public. www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 25/10/2025
NEW: Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals. Our latest investigation with @theguardian.com www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
It was part of a larger project led by Follow the Money. You can access the full set of investigations here: www.ftm.eu/files/the-sh...
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The Shadow Fleet Secrets
Hundreds of old oil vessels are used to avoid sanctions on Russian oil trade. By now, it is known where they are sailing, what they are shipping and where to. But who are the former owners of these sh...
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
This is the winning story: www.source-material.org/russia-oil-s...
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Shadow crews
As Ukraine’s troops battle Russia’s invading army, EU and Ukrainian companies are supplying sailors to help keep Putin’s shadow fleet afloat
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
And since we're talking awards... we've been on a roll recently! 🏆 On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, alongside over 40 collaborators from all around Europe.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
How TotalEnergies, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, funded troops in Mozambique despite knowing they were accused of killings, rape and extortion www.source-material.org/mozambique-t...
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'Don't look back or we'll shoot' - SourceMaterial
When Islamist insurgents unleashed terror on northern Mozambique, civilians living in the shadow of Africa’s biggest gas project thought troops paid by the French energy giant would protect them. They...
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
The environmental damage caused by the “dark fleet” of ageing tankers moving Russia’s sanctioned oil www.source-material.org/putin-shadow...
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Putin's shadow fleet is illegally dumping oil across the globe
Moscow’s creaky and unregulated tankers are ferrying illicit oil across the globe—with alarming consequences for the world’s oceans
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
An expose of the UK's toxic waste tyre trade to India which resulted in a government inquiry and policy change www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
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Burning Rubber – SourceMaterial
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/10/2025
We're very proud to be shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards alongside many other excellent journalists. Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
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