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Deforestation

September 2024

  • man in yellow uniform stands against backdrop of burning forest

    ‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

    Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest
  • Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, Jefferson da Silva Lima and Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira.

    Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: murder charge dropped against one of three suspects

    Activists greet decision over killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert with ‘indignation’

    • The age of extinction
      Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says

    • War, deforestation, flooding: in Afghanistan they are all linked

    • The age of extinction
      Almost 200 people killed last year trying to defend the environment, report finds

August 2024

  • view of the site showing six huge smoking chimneys from a field in the foreground

    Green groups urge Ed Miliband to scrap Drax subsidies

    Open letter to Labour energy secretary from 41 groups says wood-burning biomass plants are putting forests and biodiversity at risk
  • Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State

    Brazil sends 1,500 firefighters to combat Amazon forest blazes

    Environment minister says severe drought is ‘aggravating’ factor as smoke engulfs Porto Velho city

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?

    • About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin

    • Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

July 2024

  • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

  • Trees in dense forest

    Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

  • Geoffrey Lean

    How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

    Geoffrey Lean

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

  • Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

  • The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

  • ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

June 2024

  • A sign in tropical jungle that reads in English: "This is a protected area. Entry is barred by law"

    The age of extinction
    Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

    Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species
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