The Crime Tracker is a public database maintained by EIA on environmental crime, which is a massive and rapidly expanding global problem, ranking as the third-largest criminal activity in the world, ...

These are not abstract questions. In the coming weeks, the EU will decide when plastic waste stops being waste and starts ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today published its AR6 Synthesis Report, making plain the urgent need to address the escalating climate crisis. The report, finalised last week in ...

EIA research reveals that at least 24 Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been listing leopard bones as an ingredient in their traditional medicines, although there are fewer than 450 wild leopards ...

All eight recognised species of pangolin face high risks of extinction, with the primary threats to their survival being poaching and trade of their meat, body parts and scales. In order to address ...

A report exposing critical failures in an international system seeking to assure consumers that the palm oil they buy in many thousands of products is sustainable. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm ...

A study from Canada’s York University has raised concerns about the damaging impacts of a new breed of gases on health and the environment. Hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs) are being promoted as sustainable ...

In late June 2002, the container ship MOL Independence docked at Singapore port after a voyage of almost a month from Durban in South Africa. On board was a consignment which had been on a far longer ...

Fluorinated gases, or F-gases, are synthetic substances used in a range of applications such as refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems. However, a new generation of F-gases is being ...

A report revealing that Chinese-led criminal gangs are conspiring with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory, a trade which has caused half of Tanzania’s elephants to be poached ...

An exhaustive investigation reveals how criminal gangs originating from an obscure town in southern China have come to dominate the smuggling of illegal ivory poached from African elephants. Shuidong ...