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Climate and Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost.com. Ex-Reuters, Ex-Brazil, Ex-China. Host of Foreign Correspondence podcast.
I spent a few days up near the Boundary Waters - America’s most visited wilderness area - meeting with people trying to protect it from a proposed mine, as well as some mining supporters. Trump and some Republicans are aggressively trying to make the mine happen. wapo.st/4pN2VfE
A new generation rallies to preserve the Boundary Waters wilderness
The Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I spent a few days up near the Boundary Waters - America’s most visited wilderness area - meeting with people trying to protect it from a proposed mine, as well as some mining supporters. Trump and some Republicans are aggressively trying to make the mine happen. wapo.st/4pN2VfE
No real surprise here
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Lula expected to announce Brazil's top climate diplomat as COP30 president
Brazil is expected to announce on Tuesday that ambassador Andre Correa do Lago will be president of the 2025 COP30 global climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem, three people with knowledge of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plans told Reuters.
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January 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No real surprise here
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Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'
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Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'
The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its emissions by 2040, and to ending illegal deforestation across its long supply chain that starts in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
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January 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise'
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Soybean farmer lobby Aprosoja-MT says the Brazil Amazon soy moratorium - which forbids buying soybeans grown on recently deforested land - fosters "a purchasing cartel" and has asked antitrust regulator CADE to end it www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Brazil farmer lobby asks to lift soybean ban from deforested Amazon rainforest
A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, claiming the deal has created an uneven playing field.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Soybean farmer lobby Aprosoja-MT says the Brazil Amazon soy moratorium - which forbids buying soybeans grown on recently deforested land - fosters "a purchasing cartel" and has asked antitrust regulator CADE to end it www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
They have a deal! At long last the European Union and South America's Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia Paraguay) strike an agreement on their long awaited free trade deal.
EU and South America strike trade deal:
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EU and South America strike trade deal:
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EU, Mercosur set to finalise contentious trade deal
The European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc are expected on Friday to finalise a free trade agreement but it faces a tortuous battle for approval in Europe given firm French opposition.
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December 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM
They have a deal! At long last the European Union and South America's Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia Paraguay) strike an agreement on their long awaited free trade deal.
EU and South America strike trade deal:
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EU and South America strike trade deal:
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Soy traders push to weaken ban on buying from deforested Amazon
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Soy traders push to weaken ban on buying from deforested Amazon
Multinational grains traders operating in Brazil are seeking to weaken an agreement that forbids buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, environmental advocates involved in the discussions said on Wednesday.
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December 5, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Soy traders push to weaken ban on buying from deforested Amazon
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Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold
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Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold
The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has made Brazil's task of cracking down on wildcat mining in the Amazon far harder, environmental agents and police say.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold
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Signs that the drought in the Amazon is easing www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Brazil grain barge shipping returns as Amazonian drought subsides
Transportation of soybeans and corn on barges along the Brazilian Amazon's Tapajos River, which had been suspended in early October due to dry weather, resumed at 50% capacity this week, operators said on Wednesday.
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November 28, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Signs that the drought in the Amazon is easing www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
