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• Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees

  03-06-2024 22:00
  
  Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cutThe unusually intense, prolonged and extensive flooding that has devastated southern Brazil was made at least twice as likely by human burning of fossil fuels and trees, a study has shown.The record disaster has led to 169 deaths, ruined homes and wrecked harvests, and was worsened by deforestation, investment cuts and human incompetence. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

  03-06-2024 01:30
  
  The Guardian journalist and his Brazilian colleague, Bruno Pereira, were shot dead in the Amazon in 2022.Alessandra Sampaio fell to her knees and wept as she clambered on to the boat’s deck and came face to face with the remote riverside clearing where her husband’s life was extinguished and hers turned upside down.The sound of Sampaio’s lament mixed with birdsong and the voice of an Indigenous shaman echoed through the jungle where the British journalist, Dom Phillips, and his
  
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