Eva Richter
@evarichter.bsky.social
Data Investigator at Global Witness
interested in climate journalism, creative exploration, craft projects, climbing rock
interested in climate journalism, creative exploration, craft projects, climbing rock
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Eva Richter
@evarichter.bsky.social
· Feb 25
My dad loves birds. So last November, we installed a microphone attached to a @raspberrypi.com with a bird sound classifier in our small garden in Heidelberg, Germany.
It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
I made this data interactive with Svelte and d3 for the Global Witness annual report documenting killings and disappearances of environmental defenders, check it out here:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
In numbers: Attacks against defenders since 2012
Explore our full dataset to find out where killings of defenders are occurring, which industries are responsible, and how this violence has changed over time
globalwitness.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I made this data interactive with Svelte and d3 for the Global Witness annual report documenting killings and disappearances of environmental defenders, check it out here:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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Calling all journalists & media innovators!
The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation at Harvard is now accepting applications.
This unique program supports projects that explore journalism’s digital transformation.
More:
The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation at Harvard is now accepting applications.
This unique program supports projects that explore journalism’s digital transformation.
More:
Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation - Nieman Foundation
The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation* brings individuals to Harvard University to work on a specific course of research or a specific project relating to journalism innovation. The fellowship is a collaboration between the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Both organizations share a set of common interests […]
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August 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Calling all journalists & media innovators!
The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation at Harvard is now accepting applications.
This unique program supports projects that explore journalism’s digital transformation.
More:
The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation at Harvard is now accepting applications.
This unique program supports projects that explore journalism’s digital transformation.
More:
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A powerful and moving #dataviz.
Visualizing abstract numbers / actual human beings ... visualizingpalestine.org/gaza-names/e...
Remember their names
Naming the Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza
visualizingpalestine.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A powerful and moving #dataviz.
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Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...
Merlin | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Identify birds (visually), through an app.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
May 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...
As it is still extremely topical and one of the best examples of non-conventional approaches to #datavis, I highly recommend reading about this simulated dendrochronology (science of tree rings) of US immigration, where each year in US history is a tree ring: pmcruz.com/dendrochrono...
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
As it is still extremely topical and one of the best examples of non-conventional approaches to #datavis, I highly recommend reading about this simulated dendrochronology (science of tree rings) of US immigration, where each year in US history is a tree ring: pmcruz.com/dendrochrono...
Global Witness commissioned sediment samples around the Veolia landfill. All four showed mercury contamination levels that exceeded quality guidelines, as visualised here:
March 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Global Witness commissioned sediment samples around the Veolia landfill. All four showed mercury contamination levels that exceeded quality guidelines, as visualised here:
Secretly filmed footage shows French multinational Veolia pumping toxic pollutants into protected Colombian wetlands, a new investigation by Global Witness reveals:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Footage shows Veolia pump pollutants into protected wetlands
French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia
globalwitness.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Secretly filmed footage shows French multinational Veolia pumping toxic pollutants into protected Colombian wetlands, a new investigation by Global Witness reveals:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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🚨 NEW: Shell's CEO has bagged a pay rise - pocketing an obscene £8.6 million.
After a year of unprecedented climate disasters & soaring energy bills.
Planet-wrecking oil firms like Shell should be paying climate damages, not cashing in on our misery.
gwitness.org/4iJMWLw
After a year of unprecedented climate disasters & soaring energy bills.
Planet-wrecking oil firms like Shell should be paying climate damages, not cashing in on our misery.
gwitness.org/4iJMWLw
Shell plans more cuts to costs and spending but hands CEO bigger bonus
Increase in pay package comes despite fall in profits and as oil company watered down pledge to cut emissions
gwitness.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚨 NEW: Shell's CEO has bagged a pay rise - pocketing an obscene £8.6 million.
After a year of unprecedented climate disasters & soaring energy bills.
Planet-wrecking oil firms like Shell should be paying climate damages, not cashing in on our misery.
gwitness.org/4iJMWLw
After a year of unprecedented climate disasters & soaring energy bills.
Planet-wrecking oil firms like Shell should be paying climate damages, not cashing in on our misery.
gwitness.org/4iJMWLw
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Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bellingcat's Environmental Investigation team is looking for story pitches that use open-source investigation techniques to investigate environmental issues. We offer payment for stories, so if you've been working on a story and want to get paid, look here:
www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.
www.bellingcat.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Bellingcat's Environmental Investigation team is looking for story pitches that use open-source investigation techniques to investigate environmental issues. We offer payment for stories, so if you've been working on a story and want to get paid, look here:
www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
My dad loves birds. So last November, we installed a microphone attached to a @raspberrypi.com with a bird sound classifier in our small garden in Heidelberg, Germany.
It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My dad loves birds. So last November, we installed a microphone attached to a @raspberrypi.com with a bird sound classifier in our small garden in Heidelberg, Germany.
It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
Reposted by Eva Richter
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
A new investigation by Global Witness reveals TikTok and X recommend more right-leaning than left-leaning political content to non-partisan German users.
Read about it here:
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
Or read the full report here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/global...
Read about it here:
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
Or read the full report here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/global...
February 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A new investigation by Global Witness reveals TikTok and X recommend more right-leaning than left-leaning political content to non-partisan German users.
Read about it here:
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
Or read the full report here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/global...
Read about it here:
techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
Or read the full report here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/global...
Remote sensors pick up light that is not visible to the human eye. If we map them to visible channels, we see things we would otherwise not see. These two images from NASA's satellite program Landsat show Los Angeles and its surrounding area in January 2024 and in January 2025.
February 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Remote sensors pick up light that is not visible to the human eye. If we map them to visible channels, we see things we would otherwise not see. These two images from NASA's satellite program Landsat show Los Angeles and its surrounding area in January 2024 and in January 2025.
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The number of options for government coalitions in the upcoming German election heavily depends on how many smaller parties reach the five-percent threshold. We analyzed 50.000 elections to visualize this effect using animated kernel density plots 🤓 (text in 🇩🇪)
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The number of options for government coalitions in the upcoming German election heavily depends on how many smaller parties reach the five-percent threshold. We analyzed 50.000 elections to visualize this effect using animated kernel density plots 🤓 (text in 🇩🇪)
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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🧐 Are you a journalist who wants to learn more about investigating finance in climate-related issues?
📆 You have until the end of this week — 2 Feb 2025, 23:59GMT – to apply for a new and #free online training programme for European journalists: tcij.org/initiative/d... @tcij.org
📆 You have until the end of this week — 2 Feb 2025, 23:59GMT – to apply for a new and #free online training programme for European journalists: tcij.org/initiative/d... @tcij.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🧐 Are you a journalist who wants to learn more about investigating finance in climate-related issues?
📆 You have until the end of this week — 2 Feb 2025, 23:59GMT – to apply for a new and #free online training programme for European journalists: tcij.org/initiative/d... @tcij.org
📆 You have until the end of this week — 2 Feb 2025, 23:59GMT – to apply for a new and #free online training programme for European journalists: tcij.org/initiative/d... @tcij.org
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Our research shows that more than a quarter of the land used to mine critical minerals in the #Philippines clashes with Indigenous land or biodiversity zones. www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
How mining threatens Indigenous defenders in the Philippines | Global Witness
With skyrocketing global demand for critical minerals – vital to the green energy transition – Indigenous groups and biodiversity are at risk in the Philippines
www.globalwitness.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our research shows that more than a quarter of the land used to mine critical minerals in the #Philippines clashes with Indigenous land or biodiversity zones. www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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Nickel mining is spreading fast across the Philippines, imperiling communities and protected forests. Here I talk about our latest report and why the global energy transition can't come at the expense of people and planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=m414...
Philippines nickel mining: Activists warn of threat to protected forests
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nickel mining is spreading fast across the Philippines, imperiling communities and protected forests. Here I talk about our latest report and why the global energy transition can't come at the expense of people and planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=m414...
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Question for open data or geospatial folks: we've digitised some maps on PDFs from a govt site. We'd like to make the shapefiles available on GH. Our lawyer is trying to work out whether our ownership of the intellectual property is sufficient for that. Can anyone point to guidance that might help?
January 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Question for open data or geospatial folks: we've digitised some maps on PDFs from a govt site. We'd like to make the shapefiles available on GH. Our lawyer is trying to work out whether our ownership of the intellectual property is sufficient for that. Can anyone point to guidance that might help?