Eva Richter
@evarichter.bsky.social
Data Investigator at Global Witness interested in climate journalism, creative exploration, craft projects, climbing rock
New investigation finds conflict coltan from DRC mines controlled by M23 is likely ending up in everyday tech. Five of Rwanda’s seven biggest coltan exporters bought smuggled conflict minerals. Industry due diligence systems largely failed to stop it. https://gwitness.org/4fBWlpM
Who buys Rwanda’s conflict coltan?
Conflict coltan smuggled from war-torn DRC is finding its way into global markets and popular consumer products, despite due diligence systems
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Come join our team! 🥳 The Data Investigations team at Global Witness is looking for two Data Investigators to work on a major new project on abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells in Europe. Message me with any questions. globalwitness.org/en/careers/c... globalwitness.org/en/careers/c...
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While the world looks elsewhere, Venezuela's ecological crisis continues and risks being fuelled by new foreign investments. My colleague @evarichter.bsky.social and I mapped the oil spills, gas flaring and deforestation in this new visual analysis
Global Witness@globalwitness.org · 4mo ago100 days after the US invasion of Venezuela, there is still complete opacity around the vast legacy of oil spills, methane flaring and deforestation in the country. Satellite data shows how renewed oil and mining deals risk fuelling an escalating environmental crisis. https://gwitness.org/4t8GfYk
NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @sylviahayes.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/eAPkvkx
Excited to share a new #interactive #dataviz, putting 50 years of #neuroscience research on the map: The State of Neuroscience 2025 stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org #StateOfNeuro
State of Neuroscience 2025: Trends & Breakthroughs | The Transmitter
A comprehensive look at major trends shaping the neuroscience landscape in 2025
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Peaceful climate protest is being policed more heavily than far right activism – with environmental activists charged at three times the rate of nationalist agitators, according to new data we've obtained https://gwitness.org/48j8QAW
UK climate activists charged three times more than far-right
Climate protesters are being disproportionately charged following arrest, despite far-right protestors being more violent, new evidence suggests
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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...
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
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great opportunity for experienced science or technology journalists: www.h-its.org/de/hits-job/...
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Are you an experienced science journalist? Would you like to delve into new areas of research and deepen your technical knowledge? ...
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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:
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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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.
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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:
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...
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
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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
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
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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’
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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...
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.
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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:
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.
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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...
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.
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...
🧐 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
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
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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
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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?
