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Wildlife populations have fallen nearly 70% globally since 1970, the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet Report reveals – equivalent to a wipe-out of everyone in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania and China

WWF has called for legislation to take deforestation-linked products off UK shelves.

US food company JBS’ subsidary Seara supplies chicken to British supermarkets, schools and hospitals

Investigation found that JBS poultry were fed on soya beans and corn from deforested areas

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry seal of approval that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains

Bolsonaro "derided Indigenous people, environmentalists and science" while weakening environmental protections

Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.

Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas…