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10.02.22

‘Deforestation-free’ soya farms still tearing down the Amazon

More than 1,000 sq km of the Amazon has been felled on Brazilian soya farms over the past decade, despite an internationally recognised agreement to protect the rainforest, an investigation can reveal...

09.02.22

Big Tech

Twitter cuts ties to Swiss tech company after Bureau investigation

Twitter is distancing itself from Swiss tech company Mitto after Bloomberg and Bureau investigation. Google has also passed on concerns

04.02.22

Our Impact

Community power, corporate change and courtroom justice: the Bureau’s impact in 2021

Unearthing facts, uncovering wrongdoing, collaboration and meaningful storytelling made the Bureau’s journalism more impactful than ever in 2021

14.01.22

Environment

Soybean giant breaks pledge on Amazon deforestation

Cargill found to be trading with farm responsible for swaths of cleared rainforest

17.12.21

Environment

Supermarkets drop Brazil beef over links to deforestation

Sainsbury's and five other European supermarkets have said they will not source some or all of their beef products from Brazil's biggest meat business after concerns over links to deforestation

06.12.21

Big Tech

Spam, Spies, SMS: how it works

Little-known bulk messaging companies use the access they’ve brokered to hundreds of phone networks to send millions of messages cheaply and quickly around the world. But this efficiency comes at a co...

06.12.21

Big Tech

Swiss tech company boss accused of selling mobile network access for spying

Mitto AG’s network used to track people via mobile phones, former employees say

15.11.21

The Enablers

City law firms make millions while top corruption cases tumble

Some companies under investigation spend up to 10 times more than the Serious Fraud Office on legal and investigation fees, the Bureau can reveal

09.11.21

The Housing Crisis

Open justice? The closed doors of possession courts

The head of the civil justice system in England and Wales intervened after Bureau reporters were repeatedly blocked from public hearings

08.11.21

Environment

HSBC led big banks’ charge against climate change action

Bank lobbied to delay key deadline and scrap mandatory science-based targets for 50-bank net-zero alliance

03.11.21

The Housing Crisis

Big banks resume push for repossessions in wake of pandemic

The Bureau has found hundreds of mortgage possession cases in courts since the ban on enforcing home repossessions was lifted – some over as little as £1,000

02.11.21

Big Tobacco

‘Impossible to enforce’: Big Tobacco exploiting loopholes in European menthol ban

Japan Tobacco International has been able to work around 2020 ban intended to prevent young people from taking up cigarettes

15.10.21

Environment

Getting rich while the world burns: a surreal trip through Brazil’s soya boomtowns

A 400-mile voyage between two soya superfarms threw up two constants: charred woodland and serious prosperity

13.10.21

Environment

The bean destroying the planet: can the soya trade be cleaned up?

For farmers, it is a magic bean that helps pack muscle onto chickens, pigs and cattle. But there are mounting concerns about the expansion of soya farming around the world

13.10.21

Environment

British supermarket cheese linked to catastrophic deforestation in Brazil

Agribusinesses in the global food chain claim they can make soya sustainable, but mounting evidence suggests otherwise

08.10.21

Global Health

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

The inside story of how an ambitious global collaboration fell badly short of its lofty goals

23.09.21

Global Health

Evicted in less than 10 minutes: courts fail tenants broken by pandemic

Rigid rules on possession orders leave judges unable to take tenant's situation into account

22.09.21

Global Health

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Namibian hospitals were wrongly told that switching to onsite oxygen generator plants could put human life at risk, the Bureau has learned

18.09.21

Global Health

Financing fake news: Nike and Amazon advertise on Covid conspiracy sites

‘Opaque by design’ system funnelling money from major brands towards dangerous outlets

14.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

A joint investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath has unearthed thousands of leaked documents that reveal a wide-scale corporate espionage operat...

‘Deforestation-free’ soya farms still tearing down the Amazon

Twitter cuts ties to Swiss tech company after Bureau investigation

Community power, corporate change and courtroom justice: the Bureau’s impact in 2021

Soybean giant breaks pledge on Amazon deforestation

Supermarkets drop Brazil beef over links to deforestation

Spam, Spies, SMS: how it works

Swiss tech company boss accused of selling mobile network access for spying

City law firms make millions while top corruption cases tumble

Open justice? The closed doors of possession courts

HSBC led big banks’ charge against climate change action

Big banks resume push for repossessions in wake of pandemic

‘Impossible to enforce’: Big Tobacco exploiting loopholes in European menthol ban

Getting rich while the world burns: a surreal trip through Brazil’s soya boomtowns

The bean destroying the planet: can the soya trade be cleaned up?

British supermarket cheese linked to catastrophic deforestation in Brazil

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

Evicted in less than 10 minutes: courts fail tenants broken by pandemic

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Financing fake news: Nike and Amazon advertise on Covid conspiracy sites

Smoke Screen: BAT, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

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