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This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @AFP

NEW: Last month, Indonesian authorities arrested 11 people on suspicion of bribery and disguising palm oil as a less strictly regulated byproduct. SourceMaterial can reveal that exporters targeted in this probe supplied major international companies. source-material.org/indonesian-exp…

This is a months-long investigation involving multiple sources in Indonesia and Europe, and a lot of data and documents. Great reporting by @sarahussein and our partners at @Source_Mat

This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @AFP

Indonesian exporters targeted in a palm oil bribery probe supplied major international companies, casting doubt on Europe’s ability to prevent fraud in its biofuels market, a SourceMaterial investigation has found. source-material.org/indonesian-exp…

INVESTIGATION: Indonesian firms targeted in a palm oil fraud probe supplied European firms, an investigation by AFP and SourceMaterial (@Source_Mat) has found. The European firms include Italian energy giant Eni and Finnish sustainable aviation fuel leader Neste u.afp.com/SLMh

Shell yesterday scrapped its sale of $500m of North Sea assets to Viaro Energy, owned by Italian entrepreneur Francesco Mazzagatti. Both parties cited changing market conditions. The move followed our investigation into Mazzagatti's career. source-material.org/mazzagatti-via…

🎉 Thrilled that SourceMaterial was Highly Commended at the British Journalism Awards for Energy & Environment Journalism! Huge thanks to our amazing team for all their hard work — onto the next story! ⚡🌿

@fkyembe I'm a journalist from London keen to contact you about a project, but I don't have your details. My email is costanza@source-material.org

Last year, we travelled to Mozambique to reveal how TotalEnergies funded troops it knew stood accused of rape and murder. Today, after reviewing SourceMaterial’s findings and reporting by Politico, the UK government announced it would withdraw a $1.15 billion loan to the project.

Amazon's environmental impact on France, like other places in the world, is bigger than it has previously acknowledged, leaked figures reveal. We shared these figures with @Reporterre, who have published this story. reporterre.net/Amazon-exploit…

This story, by SourceMaterial and @Sushmitav1, was published in partnership with The Guardian, whose version can be read here: theguardian.com/technology/202…

Two coal plants in the Mumbai region have had their lives extended, with data centres cited as the single biggest factor in increased energy demand. One of them is located in a neighbourhood that has been called a "toxic hell". source-material.org/amazon-data-ce…

NEW: Leaked documents reveal Amazon's "dirty energy empire". Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open—and fears AI is helping keep the world hooked on fossil fuels

Brilliant reporting by @Sushmitav1 @Source_Mat @lukewbarratt on the extension received by one of Mumbai's most polluting (coal) power plants, owned by Tata, citing increased need for its data centres, even as a toxic cesspool of a locality, which was once a fishing village, continues to suffer. #mustread by @guardian theguardian.com/technology/202…

Read the full story of Amazon's big bet on an expansion into cloud computing and AI, here: source-material.org/amazon-data-ce…

NEW: We've seen documents revealing Amazon's hidden data centres—and hidden impact on the environment. The AI giant has twice as many data centres as previously reported, our investigation found.

🛑A part of my big, months' long investigation w @Source_Mat @lukewbarratt is covered by @business today "Looking at electricity consumption, some of AWS’ biggest colocation data centers are in or on the outskirts of major cities, the docs show" #Mumbai bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@EnvAgency Thank you to BBC File on 4 Investigates journos Anna Meisel and Paul Kenyon and the rest of the brilliant BBC team who got such wide impact out of the story. And thank you to the workers and villagers in India who campaigned so hard and bravely told us their stories.

The investigation prompted the @EnvAgency to launch a full review admitting UK tyres were being illegally diverted, with new oversight reforms starting October 1. MPs cited the findings in Parliament, a judicial review began, and Maharashtra’s government shut eight plants.

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.