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...
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.
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.
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🎉 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! ⚡🌿
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.
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.
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This story was published in partnership with The Guardian, whose version can be read here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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.
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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.
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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...
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.
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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
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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...
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.
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...
The environmental damage caused by the “dark fleet” of ageing tankers moving Russia’s sanctioned oil www.source-material.org/putin-shadow...
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...
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:
The Shadow Fleet shipping Russia's oil is already leaving trails of oil in its wake, raising the question of who will pay up if the worst is to happen.
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
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NEW: Russian-linked vessels are continuing to leak oil off Europe’s shores — despite Western sanctions — underscoring the continent’s inability to rein in Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet.
Read our joint investigation with @source-material.org here:
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