Organized crime in the remote Javari valley region of the Amazon is rampant. Drug trafficking, illegal fishing, mining and logging now go by almost unchecked, making it a frontline in the war on nature. It is this violence that cost journalist Dom Phillips and Indigeneous activist Bruno Pereira their lives. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland travels to the small riverside town of Atalaia do Norte, to retrace part of the journey Dom and Bruno took before they were killed.
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Smoke and flames swirled in a tornado-like pattern as hot winds met a wildfire in southern California.The fire near Quail Lake in Gorman closed portions of Route 138 northwest of Los Angeles.The LA county fire departm...
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The Amazon absorbs huge amount of CO2 and helps to cool the world, but recent studies have shown the rainforest is approaching a tipping point, with profound implications for the global climate and biodiversity. The s...
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As parts of England officially enter drought, wildfires are smouldering across the country. Footage posted to social media showed smoke billowing over Hollow ponds, near Leytonstone in east London. Videos also showed ...
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The US actor Anne Heche has died, a week after she was critically injured in a car crash. Heche, an actor of sharp intelligence, rose to prominence in the early 1990s, playing twins on the soap Another World, and movi...
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Glaciers in Switzerland have been receding due to the impact of the climate crisis. After a winter with relatively little snowfall, the Swiss Alps have already experienced two severe summer heatwaves in 2022. In July...
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It has emerged that sea sponges can sneeze, casting off accumulations of particles trapped in mucus on their surfaces in the process.Dr Jasper de Goeij, a marine biologist at the University of Amsterdam and the senio...
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Kwajo Tweneboa watched his father die in a damp, dilapidated flat. Then he took on the system, harnessing the power of social media to make change with videos exposing atrocious conditions in social housing across Lon...
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Author Salman Rushdie has been stabbed in the neck while onstage at an event in New York state. The writer was attacked on Friday morning as he was about to give a lecture in Chautauqua, near Erie
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