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View from the Amazon

Jonathan Watts, who moved to Brazil in 2021, guides us through the wonder and challenges of living in a tropical rainforest at the centre of the climate and nature crisis

4 July 2024

  • Dogs are seen near the border wall, on the border between Mexico and US, during a winter storm, in Ciudad Juarez

    Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

    Jonathan Watts
    It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather

25 January 2024

  • A man wearing a straw hat carries a water container, as behind is a river with low water level

    Optimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities

    Brazil’s president inspired hope a year ago but approval of a new highway shows he remains a concrete-and-oil state builder

6 November 2023

  • Cows among dry vegetation in Altamira, northern Brazil

    ‘Everything is parched’: Amazon struggles with drought amid deforestation

    By now, the rivers should be full. But large-scale cattle farming, the climate crisis and weather events like El Niño mean Brazil is near the point of no return

16 March 2023

  • A flag featuring Chico Mendes, Bruno Pereira, Dorothy Stang and Dom Phillips is displayed during the Parintins folk festival in Brazil in June 2022.

    Horrifying, uplifting, surreal: my mate Dom Phillips joins the rainforest martyrs

    At a Brazil memorial for murdered US activist and nun Dorothy Stang, there are two more people symbolically present

27 January 2023

  • A view of an Amazon landscape

    ‘Brazil was asleep’: as the rains come, hope reawakens for the Amazon

    While the honeymoon mood created by the new government will run up against political reality, the euphoria is not blind

16 December 2022

  • A smouldering remains of the forest destroyed by fire in the Amazon basin at Altamira, Pará state, Brazil.

    Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

    In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe ��� and much more
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