Water — the most essential resource on earth — is being quietly purchased, traded, and hoarded by hedge funds and private equity firms betting that a warming, thirsty world will …
The World at Stake
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InvestigationsPower & Money
‘Science for Sale’: The Corporate Funding Behind Research That Keeps Killing People
An investigation into how tobacco, sugar, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical industries fund, shape, and suppress scientific research — with consequences measured in millions of preventable deaths.
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InvestigationsPower & Money
Tax Haven Nation: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Pay Less Tax Than You Do
A year-long investigation exposes how forty of the world’s largest companies — earning combined profits of over $2 trillion — paid an average effective tax rate of 3.2% last year, …
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Big TechPolitics
The Algorithm and the Ballot Box: How Social Media Companies Profit from Political Rage
Internal research suppressed by major platforms shows that recommendation algorithms deliberately amplify outrage content — not because it’s true, but because it keeps users scrolling and maximises advertising revenue.
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Climate CrisisPower & Money
The $4.7 Trillion Climate Lie: How Fossil Fuel Giants Bought Science, Politicians, and Three Decades of Delay
Internal documents reveal a coordinated decades-long campaign by major oil companies to suppress climate research and fund disinformation — while their own scientists warned of catastrophic warming as early as …