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 ...

A resort complex tucked away in Laos and marketed to Chinese gamblers and tourists is a hub for trade in illegal wildlife products and parts. Sin City documents how the Golden Triangle Special ...

Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century, far beyond the universally recognised ...

LONDON: New analysis by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has revealed that the UK is the world’s largest exporter of legal ivory – and the largest exporter of legal ivory to ...

In the wake of startling evidence of unexplained emissions of the ozone-destroying chemical CFC-11 in the atmosphere, this report reveals compelling evidence that illegal production and use of CFC-11 ...

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 ...

After years of anticipation, months of preparation and two hectic weeks in South Africa, the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

In March 2020, we reported how the Indonesian Government had issued Ministry of Trade Regulation 15/2020, a move which would have drastically undermined the credibility of its legal timber product ...

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 ...

Humans have to date produced a staggering 10 billion tonnes of plastic – of which about six billion tonnes is now plastic waste in landfill sites or polluting the open environment. In our new report ...

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 ...

For decades, cetacean entanglement and mortality in commercial and recreational fishing gear has been a major conservation challenge and welfare concern. EIA has identified 15 populations of cetaceans ...