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Fishing For Anwers: Exposing Cracks in MSC's Green Facade

The MSC label has established itself as the gold standard for sustainable fishing, but more and more NGOs and scientists are crying foul, accusing the label of certifying controversial fishing ...

24'

Art & Culture

Investigation into the video games' new business models. Today, one in two people in the world is a gamer. A colossal market dominated by publishers betting on dematerialization to boost their sales. ...

Pixels And Profits: Video Game And Big Business

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Switzerland's Nazi Gold Shame

In early 2025, hidden Nazi bank accounts were discovered in Swiss banks. A new twist on a shameful and controversial page of Swiss history: its role played in managing the gold looted by the Nazis ...

10'

Cypto Craze: Digital Gold Rush Gone Wild

Bitcoin: Financial revolution or dangerous speculative bubble? What became of the original ideals of bitcoin in the face of today's speculation? Through the testimonies of those who lost everything ...

20'

Rags To Ruin : The Lethal Cost of Fast Fashion In Ghana

Ghana has become a global dumpster for fast fashion's cast-offs. The turnstile for Africa's secondhand clothing trade, the port of Accra ingests a staggering 11 million pounds of discarded ...

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The Wolf Of Zurich: Unmasking The Swiss National Bank

New

The Swiss National Bank is a global financial heavyweight moving billions across the board - and occasionally taking billion-dollar beatdowns. Like any central bank, its prime directive is ...

Temu's Reckless Race to the Bottom

Our journalists investigate Chinese e-commerce giant Temu's tidal wave takeover in the West. How are custom and postal services staying afloat amid the deluge of packages fueled by its disruptive ...

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Airbnb Rental Roulette: Spinning The Wheel Of Deceit

How do rental platforms like AirBnB protect their customers from scams? Answer: they don't! We did the A to Z test in London, one of the most expensive cities on the planet. Scams on online apartment ...

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Rocks Of Ages: Iceland's Geologic Carbon Capture

Will Iceland become Europe's CO2 dustbin? Iceland's basaltic rocks are particularly well suited to burying the CO2 released by biogas plants all over Europe. Switzerland has just exported its first ...

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Stitched Up: Unraveling Fashion's Seams

Fashion is everywhere, and at every price, whether online or in store. But how to know if the clothes we buy are good quality? We met experts in the field who judged a whole range of clothes for us, ...

43'

Health

Who still believes in the good intentions of Big Tobacco? Puffs are getting young people hooked on nicotine. These disposable electronic cigarettes with a fruity taste are the latest products used by ...

Entrapped By Big Tobacco

The Weight Loss Miracle Shot

Health

Our journalists investigate GLP-1 analogues, the drugs that s said to help anyone shed pounds effortlessly. Touted as miracle drugs for weight loss and type 2 diabetes on social networks, they're ...

40'

Profit Farming: Is Big Organic Ripping You Off?

Is organic food a privilege of the rich? Why isn't organic food more democratic? What are the industry's real margins? Eating organic fruit and green means a healthier, pesticide-free diet. But not ...

46'

Switzerland, A Paradise For Russian Money

After 18 months of war in Ukraine, the massive sanctions against the Russian economy seem to be ineffective. Private jets and mansions, bank accounts and financial assets: in the hunt for oligarchs ...

Crédit Suisse, The Downfall Of An Unrepenting Giant

Too big to fail Crédit Suisse ended up being carried away by a storm of scandals that precipitated its fall. The Swiss finance giant was forced to be taken over by UBS. It all happened very quickly ...

44'

Alimentation

How many pesticides can be found in fruits and vegetables? How are they controlled and studied? What are the real dangers associated with pesticide residues? Eating greens might not be just as ...

Pesticides And Greens, An Invisible Poison Cocktail

Self-Driving Cars. Dangerous Bend Ahead!

Youth

One teacher, one class, lots of questions: a simple concept to answer the sometimes more-complex-than-they-seem questions of primary school pupils. The pupils remain off-screen. The teacher, on ...

Klass.

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Science & Technologies

When will fully autonomous cars hit the roads? Level 3 autonomous driving has been authorized in Europe, particularly in Germany and France. While international negotiations are moving forward fast ...

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Our journalists investigate the greenwashing passion of the financial world. Today, sustainable portfolios are found everywhere on financial markets. But what lies behind our bankers’ green ...

Finance & Greenwashing

50'

Arm Sales Vs. Peace Talks

Switzerland is the cradle of neutrality and international law, yet weapons made in Switzerland can be found in battlefields throughout the world. Open source big data helped us track how the Pilatus ...

10'

War Made In Switzerland

Eat It All Up, The Dark Side Of The Food Industry

This report denounces human trafficking and forced labor in one of the world’s richest capitals: Geneva. Undocumented migrants from Ukraine, Britain, Poland or Macedonia working on building sites ...

Slave Workers In Geneva

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Food

Scary fact : 2.2 billion people, i.e. 40% of the world's population, are considered overweight or obese. In Mexico, the figure skyrockets to 76%. Junk food plays the main role in this notorious ...

53'

Voluntourism, A Shameful Business

Does voluntourism do more harm than good? Teaching English in Nepal, counting elephants in Botswana; paid volunteer missions abroad are very popular with young people. Many of them, full of ...

The prices for second homes in the mountains are skyrocketing. With the pandemic, more urbanites have become aware of their environment and some have make up their mind to get to higher ground. In ...

My Chalet At All Costs

Youth And Cosmetic Surgery, Cheap, Fake And Fun!

They're young and have already botoxed them-selves up the wazoo! For the first time in the his-tory of cosmetic surgery, 18-34 year olds out-number 50 year olds in resorting to surgery acts. Relayed ...

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Pesticides, When Shall The Poisoning Stop?

How to account for the slow transition toward healthier agriculture as the overwhelming scientific evidence of the toxicity of pesticides is stacking up? Three quarters of flying insects have now ...

53'

Health

Are corpses just like any other commodity that can be sold with impunity? Donating one's body to science after death allows medical research and the training of surgeons to progress. But the ...

How to manage and clean up the toxic dumps and polluted industrial sites that threaten the quality of our drinking water? The river Rhone waters flowing from Alpine glaciers at above 2,000 metres is ...

Exposure To Chemicals, Drinking Water Hazards

China’s resolve to become the world’s first superpower has led Beijing to keep weaving informal networks in its attempt to influence foreign political and economic decision-makers in its favour. ...

In The Dragon's Grasp

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Geneva, a cradle of human rights, has over the years become a hub of oil trading. One third of the world's oil is traded from the shores of Lake Geneva. But the honeymoon between Geneva and black ...

Geneva, Oil At Any Price

A Shameless Windfall: Inside The Business Of Life Settlements

Buying the life insurance from seriously ill patients in order to make a profit when they die: welcome to the grim reality of the life settlements industry, a financial sector regularly boasting a ...

25'

How America Has Been Spying On Us For Decades

From the 1980s until 2010, the NSA spied through a backdoor in the Solaris operating system that equipped hardware sold by Sun microsystems to countless Swiss companies and universities. Was the ...

24'

Sowing The Wind, Reaping The Jackpot Really?

Does the actual profitability of wind farms live up to the promises of green energy developers? Everyone agrees on the need to supplement our energy mix with green energy to reduce our dependence on ...

26'

Food Delivery Couriers Unchained

Their numbers exploded in the cities during lockdown: food delivery couriers, with their nose alwasys to the grindstone, have seen their working conditions worsen yet again. American meals-on-wheels ...

25'

Plastic Recycling, A Murky Industry

Our journalists report on the true environmental impact of the plastics recycling industry lying behind the greenwashing of mass market retailers. Late 2018, China stopped importing plastic waste ...

Caregiver Migrants, The New Slaves

They are the new slaves of our societies, whose ageing demography is one of our major challenges. Working 24 hours a day, six days a week for low wages including board and room allowance, migrants ...

Fast Fashion, Made In Ethiopia

What is the true cost of cheap clothes, a large part of which are now made in Ethiopia? With wages almost ten times lower than in China, Ethiopia has become the new Eldorado of the fasion industry. ...

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In Switzerland, too, the number of people fed up with mass tourism is on a constant rise. Nearly 9.5 million tourists went to Lucerne in 2018: an all-time record that tourism stakeholders welcome, ...

Tourists Go Home (Just Not Yet)

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Once Upon A Time In Crans Montana, Switzerland

Crans-Montana has always looked like a duplicate of Monaco, if you replace the beach by the mountains, that is. The wrld-famous resort embodies a certain idea of Switzerland, with prosperity, calm ...

30'

Addictions

Faced with the growing success of vaporizers, the tobacco empire strikes back. With IQOS, Glo, Ploom, etc., cigarette companies have found a way to sell both tobacco and electronic devices. But are ...

The Tobacco Empire Strikes Back

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New Silk Road: The Iron Dragon

As part of the New Silk Road agenda set up by Xi Jinping, the « The Iron Dragon » embodies the revival of rail freight transport through the economic cooperation between various Eurasian ...

48'

Lift-Off Lies: Exposing Switzerland's Cosmic Con

Our journalist investigate the amazing story of a con artist is the Swiss military. Everyone believed it. Switzerland would compete with the American giants race in the private sector space race ...

Dark Chocolate In Ecuador: From Falloping Gourmets To Multinationals

Cooking / Gastronomy

Dive into the mysteries of black chocolate making in Ecuador through two diametrically opposed trends in the chocolate market. On the one hand, enthusiasts who go to Ecuador collect on the spot some ...

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