SourceMaterial
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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.
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.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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.
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.
We are supporting a new project convened by @earthjournalism.bsky.social in Asia Pacific, involving 11 news organisations in the region, looking into the environmental impact of the AI boom.
There are more stories to come, but read the first few here:
earthjournalism.net/special-repo...
There are more stories to come, but read the first few here:
earthjournalism.net/special-repo...
Dark Side of the Boom
earthjournalism.net
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We are supporting a new project convened by @earthjournalism.bsky.social in Asia Pacific, involving 11 news organisations in the region, looking into the environmental impact of the AI boom.
There are more stories to come, but read the first few here:
earthjournalism.net/special-repo...
There are more stories to come, but read the first few here:
earthjournalism.net/special-repo...
Our latest investigation pieces together the career of Francesco Mazzagatti, the 39-year-old entrepreneur poised to become owner of a terminal that supplies a fifth of Britain's gas.
A trail that leads from a warehouse in Calabria to London's High Court.
www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
A trail that leads from a warehouse in Calabria to London's High Court.
www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
North Sea Storm – SourceMaterial
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
www.source-material.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our latest investigation pieces together the career of Francesco Mazzagatti, the 39-year-old entrepreneur poised to become owner of a terminal that supplies a fifth of Britain's gas.
A trail that leads from a warehouse in Calabria to London's High Court.
www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
A trail that leads from a warehouse in Calabria to London's High Court.
www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
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.
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
It shows the company strategising about keeping the true water usage of its data centres secret from the public.
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
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.
www.source-material.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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.
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
It shows the company strategising about keeping the true water usage of its data centres secret from the public.
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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.
Our latest investigation with @theguardian.com
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Our latest investigation with @theguardian.com
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
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.
www.source-material.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
Our latest investigation with @theguardian.com
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Our latest investigation with @theguardian.com
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
And since we're talking awards... we've been on a roll recently! 🏆
On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, alongside over 40 collaborators from all around Europe.
On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, alongside over 40 collaborators from all around Europe.
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
And since we're talking awards... we've been on a roll recently! 🏆
On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, alongside over 40 collaborators from all around Europe.
On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, alongside over 40 collaborators from all around Europe.
We're very proud to be shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards alongside many other excellent journalists.
Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We're very proud to be shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards alongside many other excellent journalists.
Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
The Shadow Fleet shipping Russia's oil is already leaving trails of oil in its wake, raising the question of who will pay up if the worst is to happen.
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Shadow fleet slicks test limits of EU sanctions – SourceMaterial
As the West continues to blacklist ship carrying Russian oil, new slicks near Europe’s shores test the limits of Western sanctions
www.source-material.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Shadow Fleet shipping Russia's oil is already leaving trails of oil in its wake, raising the question of who will pay up if the worst is to happen.
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Reposted by SourceMaterial
NEW: Russian-linked vessels are continuing to leak oil off Europe’s shores — despite Western sanctions — underscoring the continent’s inability to rein in Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet.
Read our joint investigation with @source-material.org here:
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Read our joint investigation with @source-material.org here:
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Russia’s blacklisted tankers keep dumping oil in Europe’s seas
Shadow fleet vessels sailed unimpeded in EU waters after leaving slicks near the continent.
www.politico.eu
October 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
NEW: Russian-linked vessels are continuing to leak oil off Europe’s shores — despite Western sanctions — underscoring the continent’s inability to rein in Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet.
Read our joint investigation with @source-material.org here:
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Read our joint investigation with @source-material.org here:
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
We're delighted that The Shadow Fleet Secrets – a project we worked on with @ftm.nl and a team of international outlets – has been shortlisted for the Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism. daphnejournalismprize.eu/edition-2025...
Finalists 2025 – Daphne Caruana Galizia
daphnejournalismprize.eu
October 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We're delighted that The Shadow Fleet Secrets – a project we worked on with @ftm.nl and a team of international outlets – has been shortlisted for the Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism. daphnejournalismprize.eu/edition-2025...
We're very pleased to have been shortlisted for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards 2025 for our story 'Burning Rubber: the poisonous afterlife of waste tyres', in partnership with the BBC.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We're very pleased to have been shortlisted for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards 2025 for our story 'Burning Rubber: the poisonous afterlife of waste tyres', in partnership with the BBC.
We're delighted to have won in the 'Conflict & Climate Change' category at this year's Covering Climate Now awards with a project in partnership with our colleagues at Le Monde 🏆
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We're delighted to have won in the 'Conflict & Climate Change' category at this year's Covering Climate Now awards with a project in partnership with our colleagues at Le Monde 🏆
At dawn in Accra, Ghana, Lydia Bamfo (51) sets out to collect plastic waste. For 25 years she’s battled the tide of rubbish overwhelming her city. Now she says the World Bank’s “solution” has done nothing to help workers like her. 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
At dawn in Accra, Ghana, Lydia Bamfo (51) sets out to collect plastic waste. For 25 years she’s battled the tide of rubbish overwhelming her city. Now she says the World Bank’s “solution” has done nothing to help workers like her. 🧵
NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation into a World Bank-backed plastic credits scheme shows it has sparked controversy in Accra, Ghana.
Waste picker associations say they are 'sick and tired' of the 'false solution'.
With @ajenglish.bsky.social:
www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
Waste picker associations say they are 'sick and tired' of the 'false solution'.
With @ajenglish.bsky.social:
www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
Ghana’s waste pickers brave mountains of plastic – and big industry
Accra has been picked by a World Bank bond to end the waste crisis. But for informal recyclers, it is a false solution.
www.aljazeera.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation into a World Bank-backed plastic credits scheme shows it has sparked controversy in Accra, Ghana.
Waste picker associations say they are 'sick and tired' of the 'false solution'.
With @ajenglish.bsky.social:
www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
Waste picker associations say they are 'sick and tired' of the 'false solution'.
With @ajenglish.bsky.social:
www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
Keir Starmer said he's "tightening the screws" on Putin as he announced a raft of new sanctions, including two companies involved in crewing and managing ships involved in Russia's illegal oil exports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Starmer tightens screws on Putin with raft of fresh sanctions against Russia
Keir Starmer said his sanctions would choke off Putin’s ability to continue his war
www.independent.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Keir Starmer said he's "tightening the screws" on Putin as he announced a raft of new sanctions, including two companies involved in crewing and managing ships involved in Russia's illegal oil exports.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The French oil giant Total has quietly abandoned its offsetting project in the Republic of Congo, @reporterre.net reports.
Back in December 2022, farmers told us the tree-planting project had barred them from their fields and threatened their livelihoods.
www.source-material.org/total-oil-co...
Back in December 2022, farmers told us the tree-planting project had barred them from their fields and threatened their livelihoods.
www.source-material.org/total-oil-co...
Total’s Congo offsetting project ‘snatched our land’
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods.
www.source-material.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The French oil giant Total has quietly abandoned its offsetting project in the Republic of Congo, @reporterre.net reports.
Back in December 2022, farmers told us the tree-planting project had barred them from their fields and threatened their livelihoods.
www.source-material.org/total-oil-co...
Back in December 2022, farmers told us the tree-planting project had barred them from their fields and threatened their livelihoods.
www.source-material.org/total-oil-co...
Fresnillo is a goldminer worth £8bn, listed on the London Stock Exchange and majority-owned by the billionaire Baillères family. For years it has been locked in a bitter dispute with the Bajío agrarian community on whose land it encroached in the desert of Mexico's Sonora state.
May 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Fresnillo is a goldminer worth £8bn, listed on the London Stock Exchange and majority-owned by the billionaire Baillères family. For years it has been locked in a bitter dispute with the Bajío agrarian community on whose land it encroached in the desert of Mexico's Sonora state.
The data centre boom in the desert: in Nevada, tech companies are transforming the landscape by building huge data centres and using vast amounts of water in the process.
Read @jtemple.bsky.social's long-read for @techreviewjp.bsky.social here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
Read @jtemple.bsky.social's long-read for @techreviewjp.bsky.social here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
The data center boom in the desert
The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.
www.technologyreview.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The data centre boom in the desert: in Nevada, tech companies are transforming the landscape by building huge data centres and using vast amounts of water in the process.
Read @jtemple.bsky.social's long-read for @techreviewjp.bsky.social here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
Read @jtemple.bsky.social's long-read for @techreviewjp.bsky.social here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
This week MPs debated UK waste tyres illegally burned in India following our investigation with BBC File on 4 Investigates.
"Investigators used GPS tracking devices in several consignments of waste tyres" to expose the trade, says MP
@tessamunt.bsky.social.
www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
"Investigators used GPS tracking devices in several consignments of waste tyres" to expose the trade, says MP
@tessamunt.bsky.social.
www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
Burning Rubber – SourceMaterial
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment
www.source-material.org
May 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This week MPs debated UK waste tyres illegally burned in India following our investigation with BBC File on 4 Investigates.
"Investigators used GPS tracking devices in several consignments of waste tyres" to expose the trade, says MP
@tessamunt.bsky.social.
www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
"Investigators used GPS tracking devices in several consignments of waste tyres" to expose the trade, says MP
@tessamunt.bsky.social.
www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
Pope Francis was a pontiff in a new mould: an advocate for migrant rights and global action on climate change. Those positions won him powerful enemies. In 2019 our investigation The Heretic in the Vatican revealed the extent of the plot against him. www.source-material.org/the-heretic-...
How Pope Francis became a hate figure for the far right
On a mountain outside Rome, Steve Bannon’s anti-immigrant populism joins forces with Catholic extremists who say a “gay plague” has infected the Vatican.
www.source-material.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Pope Francis was a pontiff in a new mould: an advocate for migrant rights and global action on climate change. Those positions won him powerful enemies. In 2019 our investigation The Heretic in the Vatican revealed the extent of the plot against him. www.source-material.org/the-heretic-...
We're incredibly excited to welcome @rosafurneaux.bsky.social to our team.
On this Earth Day, I could not be more thrilled to be joining the incredible team at @source-material.org as a senior investigative reporter covering climate, corruption and democracy.
It’s a huge (and exciting) new beat, but for now I’m particularly interested in...
It’s a huge (and exciting) new beat, but for now I’m particularly interested in...
April 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We're incredibly excited to welcome @rosafurneaux.bsky.social to our team.
NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation identified 38 active data centres operated by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in parts of the world already facing water scarcity, as well as 24 more under development.
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Big Tech's data centres will take water from world's driest areas
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
www.source-material.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
NEW: SourceMaterial's investigation identified 38 active data centres operated by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in parts of the world already facing water scarcity, as well as 24 more under development.
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
“The question of water is going to become crucial,” says @lopalasi.bsky.social, founder of The Ethical Tech Society, as our investigation reveals data centres are being developed in the driest parts of the world.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Big Tech's data centres will take water from world's driest areas
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
www.source-material.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“The question of water is going to become crucial,” says @lopalasi.bsky.social, founder of The Ethical Tech Society, as our investigation reveals data centres are being developed in the driest parts of the world.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
“They're using too much water. They're using too much energy,” said Aurora Gómez of the campaign group Tu Nube Seca Mi Río—Spanish for ‘Your cloud is drying my river’—commenting on our investigation into data centres in Aragon.
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Big Tech's data centres will take water from world's driest areas
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
www.source-material.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“They're using too much water. They're using too much energy,” said Aurora Gómez of the campaign group Tu Nube Seca Mi Río—Spanish for ‘Your cloud is drying my river’—commenting on our investigation into data centres in Aragon.
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Read the full story here: www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Reposted by SourceMaterial
New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Big Tech's data centres will take water from world's driest areas
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
www.source-material.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...