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☠️ Pesticides on all sides
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☠️ Pesticides on all sides

Lawmakers in Mato Grosso approved a bill drastically reducing pesticide application limits in what is Brazil’s top agribusiness state. Opponents call the proposal “absurd”

Euan Marshall
Euan Marshall
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⛽ No future for the future fuel?
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⛽ No future for the future fuel?

Brazil’s biofuels charge faces pushback from distributors, the far-right, and inflation. But are biofuels all they are cracked up to be?

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Euan Marshall
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🐮 Ignoring the cow in the room
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🐮 Ignoring the cow in the room

Agriculture is the sector in the Amazon that has experienced the biggest financial losses from climate events over the last few decades; it is also the sector that produces the most greenhouse gases

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Euan Marshall
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🛢️ Amazon oil rush?
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🛢️ Amazon oil rush?

While pressure is centered on a single oil block near the mouth of the Amazon River, a forthcoming auction could open up the entire region to an offshore drilling frenzy

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Euan Marshall
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🚢 Brazil’s shipping emissions tax battle
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🚢 Brazil’s shipping emissions tax battle

Wealthy nations push to tax large ships for their carbon emissions. Brazil wants them to use its biofuels instead

Isabela Cruz
Isabela Cruz
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👋 Contact with the uncontacted
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👋 Contact with the uncontacted

The recent appearance of an uncontacted indigenous person in a riverine Amazon community shows the complex challenges in protecting these “isolated” groups — and how climate changes may be affecting their livelihoods

Euan Marshall
Euan Marshall
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🌳 Remembering Sister Dorothy Stang

🌳 Remembering Sister Dorothy Stang

Two decades after her brutal murder in the Amazon, US-born nun Dorothy Stang’s fight for sustainable agrarian reform faces continuous threats

Euan Marshall
Euan Marshall
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🧩 Brazil’s climate puzzle: A nation of extremes
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🧩 Brazil’s climate puzzle: A nation of extremes

From rising sea levels in the Northeast to record-breaking floods in the South, Brazil’s vast geography means climate change hits differently across its regions

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⏳ Countdown for COP
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⏳ Countdown for COP

The state of Pará is gearing up to host the first UN Climate Conference in the Amazon. Providing accommodation for around 50,000 people is one of the biggest challenges

Isabela Cruz
Isabela Cruz
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🇦🇶 Circumnavigating Antarctica
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🇦🇶 Circumnavigating Antarctica

After more than two months sailing around Antarctica exploring the effects of climate change, the Brazil-led unprecedented research mission is heading home to dry land

Euan Marshall
Euan Marshall
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✒️ Axing the Amazon with a pen stroke
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✒️ Axing the Amazon with a pen stroke

A new law in Mato Grosso state changes vegetation classification criteria and strips parts of the Amazon of its forest status, leaving it vulnerable to legal deforestation

Euan Marshall
Euan Marshall
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🌡️ Brazil has never been hotter
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🌡️ Brazil has never been hotter

2024 was the hottest year in Brazil’s history. We speak to the experts to find out why that was the case and what to expect for 2025

Euan Marshall
Euan Marshall