"Regulators must close these loopholes." We investigated Stanlow refinery's environmental record, finding that UK authorities awarded it a 'no-limit' permit that helped it avoid scrutiny for discharging oil in a protected wildlife site.

NEW: Licence to spill: How the UK’s dirtiest oil refinery dodged a government investigation into pollution.

It's great to see two of our reporters, @lukewbarratt and @AtikaRehman, named as winners of a @CoveringClimate award. We worked together with Earth Journalism Network and with journalists across Asia to investigate the environmental impact of a massive increase in data centres.

“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.

“It's nonsense”—how lobbyists pushed a leading emissions watchdog to the brink of declaring that chopping down trees helps the climate.

NEW: 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.

“My family really suffered because of the hunger” 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.

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.

🎉 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! ⚡🌿

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

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.

Thank you to BBC File on 4 Investigates journos Anna Meisel and Paul Kenyon and the rest of the brilliant BBC team who got such wide impact out of the story. And thank you to the workers and villagers in India who campaigned so hard and bravely told us their stories.

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.

In the next few weeks Francesco Mazzagatti will learn whether he is to become one of Britain's most important businessmen. The 39-year-old Italian is waiting for a green light from the government to buy the Bacton Gas Terminal -- source of a fifth of Britain's gas.

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.

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.

And since we're talking awards... SourceMaterial has been on a roll recently! 🏆 On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, together with over 40 collaborators from all corners of Europe.