Jonathan Watts
Global Environment Writer at The Guardian
Amazon-based author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock. Global environment writer @Guardian. Founder @Sumaumajornal & @Amazon_RJF. Mostly on BlueSky 🦋
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts
Fake metal trees have been set into the concrete ground of the Amazonian host city of this year’s climate summit, prompting scandalised contrasts with the once-living vegetation that has been cleared in preparation for Cop30 in Brazil.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts
Environmental groups are outraged that the world’s biggest meatpacking company, JBS, which has long been linked to Amazon’s deforestation, has received approval from US authorities to list on the New York Stock Exchange. The decision, announced on Tuesday by the Securities Exchange Commission, follows reports that JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s was the biggest donor to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Chris Watson |Lucy Swan
Brazil is the biggest exporter of beef in the world, and more than 40% of its vast 240m-cattle herd is raised in the Amazon region. As a result, swathes of the nature-rich rainforest are being cleared and burned to create pasture. This is pushing Amazon destruction close to a point of no return, prompting environmentalists and consumer groups to demand deforestation-free meat products.
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3 weeks ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jonathan Watts |Naira Hofmeister |Daniel Camargos |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers. Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
Yellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-century cowboy is about 7,500 miles south, in what used to be the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where the reality of raising cattle and producing beef is better characterised by depression, market pressure and vexed efforts to prevent the destruction of the land and its people.
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