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fromwww.dw.com
2 days ago

Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil says deforestation is down DW 10/31/2025

Amazon deforestation in Brazil fell 11% to 5,796 km² (Aug 2024–Jul 2025), marking four consecutive yearly declines and a halving since 2023.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

This refinery is turning cattle into 'green' jet fuel-but it's destroying the Amazon

A Texas refinery supplying green aviation fuel purchased beef tallow sourced from cattle raised on illegally cleared Amazon rainforest land.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure

Brazil is the world's biggest soya bean exporter. The legume, used largely for animal and fish feed, is one of the most widely grown crops in Brazil, and posed a huge deforestation threat to the Amazon rainforest until stakeholders voluntarily agreed to impose a moratorium and no longer source it from the region in 2006. The voluntary agreement brought together farmers, environmentalists and international food companies such as Cargill and McDonald's, and determined that any detection of soya beans planted on areas deforested after 2008
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