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26.04.2024
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SourceMaterial is looking for a Senior Reporter/Deputy Editor to join our growing team.
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24.02.2024
‘Fool’s bargain’
The secret payments behind a deal that brought a country to its knees
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09.02.2024
Secret Sewers
Hundreds of unmonitored ‘emergency overflows’ are located in conservation areas and some are used routinely, documents reveal
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29.01.2024
As climate change wrecks homes, human traffickers profit
Sierra Leone’s poorest communities have long been prey to human traffickers. Climate change is making things worse.
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07.12.2023
Trojan Horsepower
Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby: a tie-up between petrolheads and petrodollars is more than just an exercise in ‘soft power’
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29.11.2023
Scramble for Africa
An Emirati sheikh and an Italian fugitive are hoovering up land for an ambitious carbon offsetting project that critics say will make the climate crisis worse
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13.11.2023
‘Get Out of Jail Free’
How plastics offsetting is giving industry a licence to pollute
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09.10.2023
‘Blueprint for disaster’
An ambitious plan to re-engineer the carbon market could play havoc with net zero goals and raises questions about human rights
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