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Brazil meat giant JBS vows net zero by 2040 amid record profits
Much of net-zero target could be met if JBS ended deforestation by Amazon suppliers, say campaigners
Dom Phillips
25, Mar, 2021 @6:27 PM
China's taste for beef drives record exports from Brazil
Sales rose by 76% last year and show no signs of slowing, fuelling an environmental crisis in the Amazon and Cerrado regions
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Michael Standaert in Shenzhen
16, Mar, 2021 @7:00 AM
Brazilian beef farms ‘used workers kept in conditions similar to slavery’
Workers on farms supplying world’s biggest meat firms allegedly paid £8 a day and housed in shacks with no toilets or running water
Dom Phillips
06, Jan, 2021 @1:08 PM
'Miners out, Covid out': threats to indigenous reserve in Brazil grow
Illegal goldminers supported by Bolsonaro bring environmental destruction and coronavirus to Yanomami communities
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
29, Dec, 2020 @7:30 AM
Rio de Janeiro mayor charged with corruption
Bolsonaro ally Marcelo Crivella accused of leading ‘well-structured and complex criminal organisation’
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
22, Dec, 2020 @7:35 PM
‘Brazil is a racist country, statistically’: Luedji Luna, the bold voice of Bahia
Amid hostile rhetoric from her president, the singer is trying to foreground community and love in her new, rapturously received album
Dom Phillips
07, Dec, 2020 @10:58 AM
The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields
The Cerrado savannah has become an agricultural powerhouse, but wildlife, forests and local communities have paid the price
Dom Phillips
25, Nov, 2020 @3:00 PM
Felipe Neto: the YouTuber who became one of Jair Bolsonaro's loudest critics
Neto’s outspokenness landed him on Time’s most influential people list, but also made him the target of a vicious fake news campaign
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
12, Nov, 2020 @10:00 AM
Green groups denounce Brazil's 'sham' Amazon tour for foreign diplomats
Campaigners say visit was ‘media propaganda’ as officials failed to stop at any devastated rainforest areas
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
07, Nov, 2020 @8:00 AM
Rio F1 racetrack plans add fuel to Brazil deforestation row
Most of city’s last flatland area along with 180,000 trees would be destroyed if project goes ahead
Dom Phillips in Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro
15, Oct, 2020 @1:07 PM
Coronavirus live news: Portugal reports 1,646 new cases – as it happened
This blog is now closed. We’ve launched a new blog at the link below: Coronavirus news – live
Jedidajah Otte (now), Aamna Mohdin, Luke Henriques-Gomes and Graham Readfearn (earlier)
10, Oct, 2020 @11:18 PM
'He became a hero': Bolsonaro sees popularity surge as Covid-19 spreads
Emergency aid payments have helped Brazil’s president win support despite the virus raging. But things could soon change
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
10, Oct, 2020 @10:00 AM
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