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Deforestation

  • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
    InterviewBrazil
    Brazil urges international action against illegal gold trade

    Indigenous affairs minister calls for penalties against buyers of illicit metal from the Amazon region

    Sonia Guajajara sings at an event
  • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
    Climate change
    Brazil looks to start-ups in battle to reforest the Amazon

    Companies are replanting millions of hectares and generating revenue through carbon credit sales

    Scientist Renato Crouzeilles examines a forested area in the Amazonian state of Pará in Brazil
  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Rich nations are not looking good in the palm-oil dispute

    Indonesia and Malaysia have a point in criticising tariffs that penalise sustainable producers

    A worker arranges palm oil fruit on a truck in Tanjung Karang, Malaysia
  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    South America
    Plan to plough $1bn into sustainable farming in South America misses initial target

    Fund for beef and soy farmers who protect rainforest struggles to make loans as planned

    Cattle at an Argentine auction
  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    UK trade
    UK poised to remove import tariffs on Malaysian palm oil

    Britain’s move to cut duties as it seeks entry to CPTPP trade deal sparks concern among green groups

    Workers use palm fruit spears to remove bad bunches from a pile at the Bukit Senorang Palm Oil Mill in Malaysia
  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    ExplainerClimate Capital
    EU deforestation law triggers ire of its trading partners

    Indonesia and Malaysia lead criticism of legislation that bans imports of products linked to clearing of forests

    An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado
  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Person in the News
    Marina Silva, an unflinching campaigner to save Brazil’s rainforest

    In her new spell as president Lula’s environment minister she will face challenges even greater than in her first term

    Marina Silva holding a microphone in a forest setting
  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    Brazilian politics
    Green champion Marina Silva returns to Brazil’s environment ministry

    New leftwing government has pledged to end deforestation of Amazon by end of decade

    Marina Silva and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
    Global Economy
    UN pushes end to $1.8tn in subsidies linked with harm to nature

    Focus turns to economic risks of loss of plant and animal life that experts estimate could affect up to half of global GDP

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    COP27
    Lula promises COP27 that ‘Brazil is back’ in climate change fight

    President-elect greeted at UN summit with chants of his name from supporters

    President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the COP27 climate summit
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Agricultural production
    Amazon destruction woes overshadow Brazil’s farming advances

    Technology makes farming in developed areas more sustainable but rainforest destruction has been soaring

    An aerial view of burning forest in the Amazon
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Appetite for charcoal threatens ‘lungs of Africa’

    Some businesses are starting to develop alternatives to the cooking fuel

    Three people looking at charcoal for sale at a market in Ambovombe, Madagascar
  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Brazil
    Lula faces struggle to reverse Brazil’s environmental destruction

    Former minister says climate change will be a top priority after increase in deforestation under Bolsonaro

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Marina Silva
  • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
    Moral Money
    A year on, COP26 pledges ring hollow Premium content

    Plus, Big Tech isn’t so clean after all

    Oil tanks at a Saudi Aramco oil facility
  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    Tree-planting and land pledges would need area bigger than US, report estimates

    Countries have promised 1.2bn hectares in total of new forests and restored land to help curb climate change

    Students take part in planting mangrove trees at a beach in Pekan Bada, Indonesia
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Amazon rainforest
    Brazil presidential vote sparks rush to clear more Amazon rainforest

    Possible change of government prompts further land grab by criminal logging gangs, say campaigners

    A deforested and burnt area along a highway in Humaitá, Brazil in September 2022
  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
    News in-depthColombia
    Colombia’s battle against Amazon deforestation: ‘The jungle is disappearing’

    Leftwing government launches crackdown on illegal clearances to tackle destruction of rainforest

    A farmer cuts down trees with a chainsaw to plant coca at a plantation in Guaviare, Colombia
  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    The Big Read
    The ancient subarctic forests at risk from climate change and war

    The boreal ecosystem that covers swaths of Russia and North America is nearing a dangerous tipping point

    Boreal forest in Dryden, Canada.
  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    The Big Read
    Brazil’s other deforestation: has the savannah farming boom gone too far?

    Decades of intensive agriculture threaten the Cerrado region, which acts as an important carbon dioxide ‘sink’ and helps fend off global warming

  • Saturday, 30 July, 2022
    LexWildfires
    Carbon counter: the cost of wildfires Premium content

    If nature has an economic value, then wildfires linked to climate change must have an economic cost.

    Smoke rises from the forest due to a wildfire in Orosh, Mirdite, Albania
  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    Henry Paulson
    Planting trees is not a panacea — we need to save existing forests

    Stopping deforestation is complicated but more important than making pledges that have mixed results

    A chemically deforested area of the Amazon jungle caused by illegal mining activities in the river basin of the Madre de Dios region in south-east Peru
  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
    Moral Money
    How can investors help save the Amazon? Premium content

    Plus, the UK seeks to hold the finance sector accountable for its role in environmental crimes

    An aspiring cattle farmer takes a break from illegally burning an area of rainforest in Brazil’s Amazonas state. The region’s deforestation rate has surged under President Jair Bolsonaro
  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Climate change
    Nestlé and Unilever CEOs: we will make our supply chains deforestation-free

    Net zero will be a pipe dream without a collective effort to conserve and restore the world’s forests

    An aerial view of deforestation in Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin
  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    A new legal battleground in US abortion wars

    UK advised to ban use of live facial recognition in public spaces

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Global InsightBryan Harris
    Brazil is letting the Amazon rainforest become lawless

    Murders of British journalist and Brazilian researcher show crime is festering and hindering the fight against deforestation

    Xukuru indigenous people hold a poster showing Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, during Pereira’s funeral in Recife, Brazil, on Friday
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