Daniela Sala

PALERMO / MATI - The Mediterranean wildfire crisis is not simply a product of climate change and bad luck. Fundamental policy failures that have undermined forest protection across Southern Europe lie at its core.

AL NASIRIYAH - The ecological disaster unfolding in Iraq is largely driven by EU oil companies. This investigation seeks to hold these companies accountable for their role in Iraq’s environmental collapse and underscore the human cost of the country's growing oil dependency.

Robin van Wechem (1986) is a Dutch political scientist and journalist.

KALIMANTAN – This investigation reveals how EU-banned pesticides are being dumped in Indonesia, devastating Borneo's ecosystem, and local livelihood.

GAFSA – Phosphate rocks, rich in phosphorus, are the basis for most fertilisers. With growing demand for food worldwide and a growing need for fertilizers, phosphates are quickly becoming one of the most disputed minerals. One of the crucial phosphate basins is located in southern Tunisia, and the EU growing fertilisers market is drying up the area.

EDINBURGH - Europe’s marine environment faces a plethora of severe threats. What are the key species in decline, and which interest groups are lobbying against marine protection laws? This investigation looks into Europe’s interconnected marine systems, and how they can be preserved.

BASRA - In Iraq, one of the world’s driest and poorest countries, Western oil companies are exacerbating water shortages as they make record profits exporting alternatives to Russian oil in the wake of the war in Ukraine.

LEABGARROW - With islands across Europe having experienced years of population decline, many now face an uncertain future.

LATINA - How, through debt, a network of intermediaries linking India to the Pontine countryside keeps thousands of Indian workers under blackmail, exploited in one of the largest fruit and vegetable districts in Europe.