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Brazilian Amazon hit by worst deforestation rate in a decade

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Comment: Bolsonaro has pledged to strip environmental protections. The EU can make those decisions hurt

06.12.2018 The Brazil president-elect's destructive impulses must be reined in, and EU policymakers must be galvanized into action, writes Fern's Nicole Polsterer

Brazil in Focus: What does Bolsonaro mean for ‘bad ag’ and the forests?

06.12.2018 With an aggressive agribusiness lobby tapped into the political establishment, the picture for the forests of Brazil is looking bleak

A carbon bomb in Papua: 7 takeaways from our investigation

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The secret deal to destroy paradise

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One of Brazil’s most important river basins under pressure from illegal cattle ranching, soy plantations and mining

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