LIMA / MADRID - An investigation finds that, four years after the spill of 12,000 barrels of crude oil, the rehabilitation of the Peruvian sea has yet to begin, as Repsol’s plans remain unapproved. Fishers continue to find tar on the beaches, while the company reports rising profits.

PORTO DO SON - The EU’s flagship fisheries policy is being undermined by a loophole. Thousands of fishing vessels are operating with illegally powerful engines, undermining conservation rules and raising doubts about the Union’s sustainability promises.

CASABLANCA - What happens when the waste you collect from a factory or a landfill is both making you sick and providing your only source of income? For Morocco, Europe’s circular economy brings a new pattern of colonial co-dependence.

FLENSBURG - The Baltic Sea is under significant pressure, yet efforts to protect it are insufficient. Its decline is driven by two major forces: the accelerating impacts of climate change and eutrophication, the nutrient overload from agricultural runoff, sewage, and other waste that fuels massive algal blooms.

PARIS - 7,000 protected areas are under threat from oil and gas projects worldwide. 120 countries were included in the investigation data analysed by a large cross-border team of independent journalists and media outlets.

PITEÅ / BOGOTÁ - On a snowy trail in Sweden, Leif Lundberg, a Sami, denounces forestry companies for exploiting the land. 10,000 kilometres away, José Tombe, a Nasa from Colombia, prepares a collective action to reclaim his land. They are both fighting the threat posed to their territories by Smurfit Westrock.

BIAŁOWIEŻA – The investigation looks into the impacts of a 186-kilometer, 5-meter-high steel barrier built at the border between Poland and Belarus in 2022.

WARSAW / BUCHAREST - This investigation exposes the fast-growing aesthetic gynaecology industry, marketed as empowerment and “intimate wellness”, yet operating largely without scientific evidence, regulatory oversight or patient protection.

SARAJEVO / SKOPJE - This cross‑border investigation explores why rare and endangered plant species in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia are vanishing despite existing legal frameworks.

BRATISLAVA / PRAGUE / BUDAPEST / WARSAW - Four leading newsrooms placed scientific-grade air monitors outside elementary schools. For four months, the data didn’t blink. PM2.5 levels stayed dangerously high, right where children learn and play.

BUCHAREST / BARCELONA / MILAN / PARIS – By dropping clothes into collection bins, we often believe to be doing a good deed, “a small gesture that transforms the world”. But does it really? This investigation's findings reveal systemic failures in this presumably sustainable system.

TARANTO / TURCENI / PRAGUE - New investigation reveals that the EU's flagship carbon market, meant to cut emissions and drive climate neutrality, is riddled with secrecy. It is also plagued by conflicts of interest and loopholes that let polluters underreport emissions and save millions.

PO RIVER DELTA/ EBRO DELTA - This investigation documents how fertiliser runoff from the Ebro and Po river basins drains into the Mediterranean, fuelling harmful algal blooms and impacting the people and local economies in those deltas.

FRIULI / SALZBURG - Europe’s efforts to save the northern bald ibis are undone by rampant poaching in Italy, a deeply rooted social phenomenon that law enforcement fails to tackle.

LONDON / BRUSSELS - This investigation resulted in creation of what is the most comprehensive map and landfill risk assessment analysis produced publicly of the region to date, revealing the stats and hidden threats these waste sites pose to water, ecosystems, and communities continent-wide.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE / ROMA /MADRID - Behind the glossy export numbers of Chilean salmon lies a trail of environmental wreckage, dangerous working conditions, and fish so drenched in antibiotics they could threaten consumers’ health.

NOVACI / OBRENOVAC / BERLIN - In the Macedonian village of Novaci, next to the REK Bitola coal complex, daily life is defined by constant dust and noise. The plant has reliably generated almost two-thirds of the country's electricity for decades. Its legacy is one of pollution and stalled modernisation.

NYÍREGYHÁZA/ LAMEZIA/ SOFIA/ JANOV - What happens when public money intended to dismantle inequality reinforces it? This investigation explores how one of Europe's most marginalised communities experiences policies designed in their name, without their participation.

VRATSA / TULCEA / DNIESTER – Sturgeon fishing - for a species threatened with extinction - has been banned across the entire Danube and Black Sea basin for many years. But a new cross-border investigation proves that illegal fishing practices persist.

BELGRADE/ LJUBLJANA - Leaked internal documents from the Swiss surveillance company NeoSoft reveal that Serbia’s Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) explored the purchase of a covert portable IMSI catcher known as the NS Backpack.

CAPE TOWN - The Fairtrade certification system arrived in South Africa in the mid-2000s with the promise of helping dismantle centuries-old inequalities. Yet, twenty years later, many farm workers feel its promises have largely remained so.

PARIS / BRUSSELS - This past decade, planting initiatives have grown more and more popular, and in 2020, the EU launched its own, the Three Billion Trees pledge. But as researchers have shown, not all planting projects are equal.

KOSICE / CALABRIA - Convicted trafficker Antonino Vadalà, long seen in Slovakia as a powerful businessman, re-emerges in a new investigation linking him and partner Diego Rodà to subsidy fraud, ’Ndrangheta ties, and a disrupted cocaine route — all amid fallout from the Kuciak murder case.

MARBELLA - Male influencers push hyper-masculinity, wealth and flashy lifestyles as the path to success. Their polished marketing hides crude truths: empty promises that mislead followers and harmful ideas about gender and power.

BRINDISI / BARCELONA - This investigation focuses on drought issues in Southern Europe and such aspects of it as desalination, EU funding and the market for technological solutions, conflicts of interest and anti-fraud legislation, and environmental concerns.

AMSTERDAM / BUDAPEST / SIDNEY – This cross-border investigation examined how the world’s most controversial herbicide secured a ten-year re-approval in the European Union despite mounting scientific and legal concerns. 

BRUSSELS / LONDON / PARIS - In this investigation, journalists investigated the role medals awarded by wine competitions play in misleading supermarket consumers over the supposed quality of wines.

WARSAW / BUCHAREST - This investigation exposes the fast-growing aesthetic gynaecology industry, marketed as empowerment and “intimate wellness”, yet operating largely without scientific evidence, regulatory oversight or patient protection.

PRAGUE / VILNIUS - This investigation examines how the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is applied in cases where mothers flee across borders to escape domestic abuse.

KVISTGÅRD - Newly uncovered confidential documents and exclusive testimonies reveal how one of the biggest Scandinavia fluoropolymer users has left behind a toxic legacy in Denmark, a pattern now familiar in many parts of Europe.

SKOPJE / BELGRADE / SOFIA - Illegal waste disposal and burning pose a significant environmental and public health risk in Southeast Europe, with North Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria being prime examples of this issue. Moreover, criminal waste trafficking close links to other organised crimes.

DOBROGEA/ MORAVIA-SILESIA - Across Europe, public money is fuelling apparently high-tech projects that promise safety, innovation, and inclusion - yet both in Dobrogea and Ostrava, delivery on EU funded projects seems to lag behind the slogans and, in some cases, open up significant security risks.

VICENZA / LOTE PARSHURAM - What happens to a Western chemical plant after it closes down due to causing an environmental disaster? Sometimes it travels to other continents. This investigation reveals how a PFAS factory implicated in an Italian environmental scandal was dismantled and rebuilt in India, where production has resumed.

TUSCANY / NARITA – Multi-billion-euro black market in European eels is one of the world’s most lucrative and sophisticated environmental crimes — and it starts in Europe. Smuggled by organised crime groups to Asia via third countries, the trade is pushing the species to the brink of extinction within a decade.

BERLIN - Across Europe, former Islamic State members live under new identities—undetected and unprosecuted. This cross-border investigation by German and Dutch journalists reveal how suspected ISIS affiliates exploited secret routes, false identities, and legal loopholes to enter and stay in Europe.

DUNKERQUE / PEÑA COLORADA / SANTA CRUZ - This team of journalists investigated the operations of Ternium and ArcelorMittal, two Luxembourg-based steel giants that present themselves as leaders in “sustainable” and “low-carbon” steel.