As gold prices skyrocket, Chinese and western companies are working side by side to exploit a region ravaged by civil war Welcome to the illegal gold rush tearing Ethiopia apart 📸 Erberto Zani via Alamy

perating a children’s home that is not registered with Ofsted is a criminal offence Yet, Cornwall Council offered suppliers £6 million to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county – and advertised the contract on a government website

Julia came to the UK to work on a farm after being promised she would earn £500 per week picking fruit –in her first fortnight, she was paid £150 The low pay and other poor working conditions pushed her and 90 colleagues to go on strike, the first industrial action of its kind

Our environment team has been working hard to investigate some of the worst polluters and the impact of the climate crisis on local communities Join us this Thursday to hear from TBIJ reporters about some of our recent Cop30 investigations – and bring your questions! 🌍

What’s the price for protecting the world’s best hope against climate change? For Kim Rebholz, who was hired to monitor the DRC’s rainforest, it was his family’s safety Today we’re exposing the environmental crimes he witnessed – which he says go back to the former president

Police forces have arrested 18 people and searched locations across the world in a massive investigation into global scam networks – including one we exposed recently

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This year’s Cop30 is starting next week – it's an important opportunity for us to hold our governments accountable But is it all just a talking shop or will it actually make a difference?

🚨 An MP has demanded HMRC release its official estimate of how much tax is being lost to offshore havens – information we discovered is currently being withheld by the authority

Indonesia committed to phasing out coal in 2022, with $20bn of help from wealthy nations and banks But, since then, these very same big banks have also been funding companies driving the expansion of coal in the country 📸 Garry Andrew Lotulung / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

JBS is the world’s biggest meat company – it has sold diseased meat, been accused of workers’ rights abuses, been implicated in using child labour, and linked to deforestation in the Amazon Now it’s expected to talk up sustainable farming at Cop30 Cris Faga/NurPhoto, Getty

For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Remember this story from last week? Character.AI will ban all under-18s from talking to its chatbots next month after we revealed harmful and manipulative bots on the platform

Millions of pounds of UK taxpayer money was supposed to help developing countries deal with the climate crisis – instead, where did it go? To billionaire-owned luxury carmakers, a company building new gas-fired power, and telecoms giants

Climate journalists in Europe and North America often write about the forest as a resource, or something that can be quantified But what if the forest is your home or a part of you? For our first Cop30 story, we spoke to 100 Indigenous people from the world’s tropical forests

If we want to ensure that this year's climate summit isn’t yet another cop out, negotiators inside the venue must be held accountable to those on the frontlines 🌎

The incoming victims’ commissioner has called for an urgent review of all family cases involving Melanie Gill – an unregulated psychologist who has given evidence up to 200 times

🚨 A mother has won a landmark legal battle to overturn the evidence of an unregulated psychologist that resulted in her losing custody of her daughters

The family courts will stop operating on the presumption that a child should have contact with both parents following a decision intended to improve the safety of children

We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone

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Combine the explosion of generative AI with shaky moderation on social media and you get ‘content creators’ posting hateful videos – and sometimes even profiting from it

Racist and violent AI-generated videos – some showing migrants on boats getting killed – are being used to gain followers and even make money on TikTok This video alone racked up half a million views 👇

Palestinians are returning to the rubble where their homes once stood But experts have warned that two years of Israel’s bombardment have filled Gaza’s landscape with a toxic mix of shattered concrete, asbestos dust and contaminated water

What happens when you lose track of 140,000 cows? It may sound like a ridiculous question, but it’s one that could have devastating consequences for the UK farming industry – and risk public health

The family courts are failing to take domestic abuse seriously despite it featuring in 9 out of 10 cases, according to a new report It says children are being put at risk by a court system that takes a dismissive attitude towards victims

Last month, parents in India noticed something wrong: their children weren’t recovering from ordinary colds and fevers – within days, their kidneys failed By early October, 24 children died The cause? Children's cough syrup contaminated with antifreeze

Hours after burying his wife, two children and grandson, Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh went back on air to continue reporting His ability to continue his job while Israel killed tens of thousands of Gazans around him has turned him into an icon of bravery

London libel firm Carter-Ruck tried to “silence” a police investigator who had been trying to protect the public from a $4bn crypto scam, new court documents reveal

Last year, Nadine made headlines after she was awarded £65,000 for unfair dismissal by Peckham Levels Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money

The application deadline for our journalist mentorship programme is this Friday (3rd) Get more details here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-09...

Our Bureau Local editor, Gareth, connects this year’s protests against asylum seekers to those he saw in his hometown 20 years ago Back then a mysterious figure dubbed as ‘Banner-Man’ would pull down racist banners in the night ...

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Patients are being left to suffer as a painkiller crisis hits Gaza’s hospitals More than 167,000 people have been reported injured in Gaza since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Read the full story: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

BREAKING: Stunning new documents lay bare Carter-Ruck’s attempts to silence whistleblowers and cast doubt on police probe www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

BREAKING: Elite law firm Carter-Ruck has dropped its attempt to hide the identity of a former crypto scam client Story in the replies ⬇️

Last chance to sign up to this evening's TBIJ Live – the team will be talking about their investigation into how bad cancer drugs were shipped to 100+ countries Sign up free here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Disturbing small sex dolls with overtly childlike features are being advertised on Facebook, with many of the ads showing the dolls in sexualised poses – some even holding balloons or teddy bears

🚨 Chelsea FC has been charged with 74 breaches of FA regulations – that mirror the allegations of financial wrongdoing we uncovered two years ago The FA said the breaches concern agents, intermediaries and third-party investments in players, with particular focus on the 2010-11 to 2015-16 seasons

Next week, our Global Health Editor Fiona Walker and reporter Andjela Milivojevic will pull back the curtain on their groundbreaking investigation Stick around till the end for a chance to ask us your questions Register here 🔗 bit.ly/4mdeBFv

After evidence of forced labour in Chinese shoe factories was first exposed five years ago, countries introduced laws pushing firms to clean up their supply chains and block the import of tainted goods But we've found new evidence that suggests some are still dodging these laws

NEW: A parliamentary group taking money from a state-owned Israeli arms company has closed down whilst being investigated Story by TBIJ and Democracy For Sale (@petergeoghegan.bsky.social) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

📢 TBIJ's Hannah Summers, the UK's first full-time family court reporter, will be offering the unique opportunity of mentorships to two UK journalists Details on the link: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-09...

Women’s health data has become a goldmine for tech giants – and the data you input into menstruation or fertility apps is not as safe as you may think www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Palestinian journalists are protected civilians under international law – and yet the Israeli army has been killing them with impunity Today we join more than 250 news outlets from 70+ countries in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza There must be accountability, journalists are not a target

When Enes Kanter Freedom appeared on a basketball court with a pair of trainers that read “Free Uyghur”, the reaction from Beijing was swift “They cancelled every Celtics game on television [in China] for the rest of the year,” he told us 📸 Mitchell Layton / Getty Images

On Monday, an Israeli airstrike hit the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and killed 20 people, including five journalists – Mohamed Salama, Moaz Abu Taha, Hussam al-Masri, Ahmed Abu Aziz and Mariam Dagga Just last week, we reported on the infections crisis at Nasser

The Cypriot tax authority has filed criminal charges over Roman Abramovich’s sham yacht-rental scheme – with the aim of recovering more than €25m in tax dodged by his company

Before the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was set up in May, Gaza’s Nasser hospital was overwhelmed with patients roughly every two weeks Now it’s every day Here’s what medics on the ground told us 👇

Two more men have been killed in separate incidents at Del Monte’s Kenyan pineapple farm in the past week One man was allegedly run over by a G4S guard, another was shot during a violent clash with police Del Monte and G4S did not comment on this story