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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Paul Scruton
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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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Jonathan Watts |Naira Hofmeister |Daniel Camargos |Lucy Jordan |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Lauren Aratani |Lucy Swan |Ana Lucía González Paz |Aliya Uteuova
The US president’s announcement has caused market chaos and threatens a trade war and US recession
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Richard Partington |Lucy Swan
Donald Trump is sending shock waves through the global economy by waging trade wars with the US’s traditional allies and enemies alike. The president is using tariffs – border taxes levied on imports – to tackle what he sees as “unfair” trading practices by US trading partners. The aim is to promote US manufacturing by making foreign imports more expensive; to raise revenue, and to use tariffs as a bargaining chip with trading partners.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Henry Dyer |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
Labour promised in its manifesto to downsize the House of Lords, which has ballooned over the past two decades. The government has already put forward legislation to remove hereditary peers, which is making its way through parliament. But a manifesto proposal for a mandatory retirement age of 80 now appears in doubt. Combined, these two measures would have halved the size of the upper house.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
The US president, Donald Trump, has put global leaders ill at ease with his threat of tariffs. After announcing and then delaying tariffs on Canada and Mexico, hitting Chinese goods with an additional 10% tariff and also threatening the European Union, countries and markets are concerned about where the US president will go next. Trump’s policies come at a time when the US operates a large negative trade balance with the rest of the world.
