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    • 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

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Brazil
      Suspect admits killing UK journalist and local researcher in the Amazon

      Brazilian police say fisherman confessed to murdering Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      Brazil
      Brazilian army launches search for missing UK journalist and local researcher

      Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira disappeared deep inside the Amazon rainforest on Sunday

    • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
      Deforestation
      Amazon rainforest loss fuelled by destruction around roads

      Brazil accounted for more than 40% of global tropical forest loss in 2021

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      Climate change
      The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero by 2050?

      See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change

    • Monday, 7 March, 2022
      Climate change
      Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction

      Satellite research finds that an irreversible ‘tipping point’ could be approaching

    • Friday, 11 February, 2022
      FT SeriesHow To Spend It spring fashion special
      The conversion of fashion designer Francisco Costa 

      For 13 years, he was creative director of womenswear at Calvin Klein. Then he went to the jungle and left it all behind – for breu 

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      Deforestation
      Supermarkets drop Brazilian beef products linked to deforestation

      Sainsbury’s, Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize clean up supply chains to cut CO2 emissions

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      News in-depthESG investing
      Asset managers fail to act on pledges to divest from Brazil over deforestation

      Lack of action by institutional investors comes as rate of rainforest clearing hits 15-year high

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Brazilian Amazon endures fastest rate of deforestation in 15 years

      Data show more than 13,200 sq km of rainforest torn down in the 12 months to July

    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      InterviewColombia
      Colombia’s president says cocaine users culpable in Amazon destruction

      Iván Duque targets recreational drug users who preach environmentalism but fuel deforestation

    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      Bryan Harris
      Fordlândia is a reminder of how the Amazon rainforest resists business interests

      Henry Ford’s abandoned town holds lessons for those who seek to tap the region’s economic potential

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      InterviewSebastião Salgado
      Photographer Sebastião Salgado on why the Amazon is under threat

      His new show at London’s Science Museum reflects the rainforest’s glories — human, animal and landscape — but recognises the dangers they face

    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      Drought puts Amazon at risk of ‘large-scale dieback’, researchers warn

      UK and Brazilian study finds 2.5bn trees in the biome perished during another recent extreme dry spell

    • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Claudia Andujar’s 50-year promise to Brazil’s Yanomami

      The artist first photographed the Amazon’s indigenous people and pledged to fight their cause in 1971. She is still fighting

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      Brazilian politics
      Brazil’s police target environment minister in smuggling probe

      Move on Ricardo Salles likely to undermine Bolsonaro’s attempts to improve country’s image

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      Brazilian politics
      Brazil seeks $1bn cash upfront for preservation of Amazon

      Environment minister says Bolsonaro’s government has done enough to deserve the funding

    • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
      Special ReportBrazil: The Road to Sustainability
      Amazon fires fuel investor concern

      Progress on ESG is being obscured by a row over deforestation

    • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
      Special ReportBrazil: The Road to Sustainability
      Hamilton Mourão: Legalise gold mining to save the rainforest

      Licensing extraction would make it easier to apply eco-regulations, says Brazil’s vice-president

    • Monday, 5 October, 2020
      News in-depthJBS SA
      JBS bets on Amazon initiative to clean up environmental credentials

      World’s largest meatpacker under the spotlight as investors sound the alarm on deforestation

    • Monday, 17 August, 2020
      Andres Schipani
      Indigenous Amazonians face ravages of the ‘invader’ virus

      Yet protecting the rainforest and its communities can help prevent the next pandemic

    • Monday, 10 August, 2020
      Oliver Stuenkel
      International pressure can save the Amazon from Bolsonaro

      The political calculus that maintains destructive environmental policies could be changed

    • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
      HTSI
      The best late-summer getaways

      A Portuguese palace, a Turkish retreat, an Amazon adventure – and where camping is elevated to an art form

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Crisis in the Amazon: ‘Coronavirus does not wait, they die on the boats’

      Indigenous groups at risk as region emerges as flashpoint of pandemic in Brazil

    • Thursday, 23 January, 2020
      Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
      Audio feature: on the frontline of deforestation in the Amazon

      Lessons from Brazil could have wider implications for global food production

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