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How what Brits eat is linked to rainforest destruction as UK 'complicit in deforestation'

Yesterday, we revealed how nature is in grave danger with the WWF saying thousands of species are in decline, most severely in Latin America, home to the Amazon, where numbers have fallen by 94%

Daily Mirror

Warning life on Earth on brink of catastrophe as climate change and destruction of nature undermine planet

Wildlife populations have fallen nearly 70% globally since 1970, the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet Report reveals – equivalent to a wipe-out of everyone in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania and China

Irish Mirror

UK ‘complicit’ in Amazon destruction, campaigners warn

WWF has called for legislation to take deforestation-linked products off UK shelves.

Evening Standard

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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals

Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists

The Guardian - UK

Life on Earth on brink of catastrophe with one million species 'at risk of extinction'

Since 1970, the population sizes of global wildlife have plummeted by nearly 70%, says WWF latest Living Planet Report, the most comprehensive in its 24-year history

Daily Mirror

How British chicken is destroying the Amazon

US food company JBS’ subsidary Seara supplies chicken to British supermarkets, schools and hospitals

The Independent UK

Amazon loses London-sized area of rainforest in a month with Bolsonaro’s reign under threat

Large area destroyed in September, as environmental criminals raced to wreck the region before possible change of president

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How British chicken is destroying the Amazon

US food company JBS’ subsidary Seara supplies chicken to British supermarkets, schools and hospitals

The Independent UK

Chicken in British supermarkets ‘linked to deforested Amazon’

Investigation found that JBS poultry were fed on soya beans and corn from deforested areas

The Guardian - UK

Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

The Conversation

Big Brazilian gold refiner delisted amid Amazon mining probe

One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry seal of approval that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains

The Independent UK

Brazil election could decide Amazon fate

Bolsonaro "derided Indigenous people, environmentalists and science" while weakening environmental protections

Salon

'Beautiful and terrifying': how artist Richard Mosse brings us the vast, significant and urgent story of the Amazon's destruction

Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.

The Conversation

The populist climate threat

Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas…

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In a Colombian national park, pictographs and pristine nature point the way toward a more hopeful future

Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Natural Park is a natural, historical and cultural wonder. Located in the northwestern part of the Colombian Amazon, it covers 43,000 square kilometres and contains what are probably some of the most ancient traces of human occupation in the Americas, with tens of thousands of pictographs in…

The New Daily

Fate of the Amazon in the balance as Brazil’s presidential race heads to a runoff

Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after neither candidate clinched the overall majority needed to win.

The Guardian - UK

Brazil election: why was Sunday’s result so disappointing for the left?

Closer than expected result in first round of voting means Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro face runoff

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Bolsonaro is down in Brazil’s election – but not out

In today’s newsletter: Brazilians will go to the polls again after leftist former president Lula won the first vote but failed to secure a majority over far right incumbent

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The Independent UK

In Brazilian Amazon, a 1,000-mile voyage so people can vote

Sunday is election day in Brazil

ABC News

Richard Mosse returns to National Gallery of Victoria with Broken Spectre, filmed in the Amazon rainforest

A monumental new artwork co-commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria documents the pre-eminent environmental disaster of our times in a startling new way — while being disarmingly beautiful.

ABC News

How teenager Juliane Koepcke survived a plane crash and solo 11-day trek out of the Amazon

The sole survivor of a plane crash, Juliane Koepcke found herself totally alone in the Amazon rainforest. But this 17-year-old was no ordinary teenager.

The Independent UK

Worst Brazil forest fires in a decade, yet election silence

September has come and gone, marking another painful milestone for the world's largest rainforest

WEKU

Brazil's election could determine the fate of the Amazon after record deforestation

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection in Sunday's vote, forest clearing and wildfires have surged in the Amazon.

The Guardian - AU

‘You can’t unsee this’: Richard Mosse’s all-consuming plea to save the Amazon

Across a 20-metre panoramic screen in ultra-high resolution, visitors bear witness to environmental degradation – in a piece that overwhelms the senses

Salon

The fate of the Amazon at stake

Polls show left-wing former president Lula ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on October 2

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