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How middlemen carbon brokers take a cut from money meant to help offset emissions

Investigations Investigation 02.05.2022
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Soya giants lobbied against deforestation rules during COP26
Forests News 04.03.2022
How the beef industry is trying to change the maths of climate change
Investigations Investigation 09.03.2022
Revealed: UK shipped more than 10,000 tonnes of banned pesticides overseas in 2020
Investigations Investigation 22.02.2022

Inside Exxon’s playbook: How the oil giant works through front groups to head-off regulations on toxic chemicals and plastics

Politics Investigation 01.07.2021

Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change

Oil & Climate Investigation 30.06.2021
Bolsonaro's Brazil
Deforestation up close: a surreal journey through Brazil’s soya heartlands
Brazil Feature 15.10.2021
Razing Brazil’s ‘upside-down forest’: how global appetite for soya is consuming the Cerrado
Brazil Feature 25.11.2020
Soya linked to fires and deforestation in Brazil feeds chicken sold on the British high street
Brazil Investigation 25.11.2020
British supermarket cheese linked to catastrophic deforestation in Brazil
Brazil Investigation 13.10.2021
Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland and Amazon rainforest worst in a decade
Brazil Feature 04.09.2020
Global food giants sourced soya linked to illegal Amazon deforestation
Brazil Investigation 19.05.2021
Agribusiness giant again linked to Amazon deforestation
Brazil Investigation 14.01.2022
Top airlines’ promises to offset flights rely on ‘phantom credits’
News 04.05.2021

The Paraquat Papers: How Syngenta’s bad science helped keep the world’s deadliest weedkiller on the market

Investigations Investigation 24.03.2021
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Environmental justice
Revealed: Europe and the UK’s vast shipments of banned, bee-killing ‘neonics’
Brazil Investigation 18.11.2021
UK waste incinerators three times more likely to be in poorer areas
Air pollution Investigation 31.07.2020
Thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides shipped to poorer countries from British and European factories
Investigations Investigation 10.09.2020
Oil-backed trade group is lobbying the Trump administration to push plastics across Africa
Energy Investigation 30.08.2020
UK aid money used for fossil fuel investments
Oil & Climate News 14.04.2020

The permafrost pandemic: could the melting Arctic release a deadly disease?

World Feature 03.07.2020

Breaking down the Amazon: how deforestation could drive the next pandemic

Forests Feature 24.04.2020
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