Environment detectives 2026

During 2026, we’re running a special project ahead of the Swedish elections that’s all about holding decision makers accountable and exposing environmental wrongdoing. We’re calling it ’Environment Detectives’.

If you were following our Fishy Farming investigation last year, it will be similar, but with a more local politics focus, and without the fish farming!

• We will start with a training bootcamp 20-22 March, where you will get a crash course in many of the different methods and skills investigative journalists use to uncover environmental and political wrongdoing.

• Then, we will form two local groups (in Skåne and Västra Götaland), and will decide together what we want to investigate, with guidance from the project leader. That could be, for example, a forestry company, a new mine, a nature area that is being polluted or destroyed, a government policy… anything the group is interested in and thinks is important.

• We’ll meet every two weeks through the spring to do field visits, interviews and to gather evidence.  Along the way, we will also have open workshops with experienced investigative journalists that cover different skills and methods.

• In June we will have a writing retreat to put our story together, before publishing in time for the Swedish elections.

• The project runs from march to september 2026