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• Defenders of the Amazon: inside the 13 June Guardian Weekly

  11-06-2025 19:00
  Following in the footsteps of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. Plus: Bernie Sanders interviewed
  • Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home addressIt’s three years since the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who were both killed on a visit to the remote Javari valley in the Brazilian Amazon.Dom was a Guardian contributor based in Brazil, whose reporting often appeared in the Guardian Weekly. Last week his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, c
  
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• ‘Win-win’: new maps reveal best opportunities for global reforestation

  11-06-2025 11:00
  
  New study shows regions with best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the airNew maps have revealed the best “win-win” opportunities across the world to regrow forests and tackle the climate crisis, without harming people or wildlife.The places range from the eastern US and western Canada, to Brazil and Columbia, and across Europe, adding up to 195 million hectares (482 million acres). If reforested, this would remove 2.2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, abo
  
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