Jonathan Watts
The Guardian
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Grain trader Cargill faces legal challenge in US over Brazilian soya supply chain
World’s biggest grain trader accused of ‘shoddy due diligence’ on deforestation and alleged rights violations → Read More
UK company mining gold in Amazon on disputed land
London-listed Serabi Gold extracting gold without approval of Brazilian land registry and Indigenous communities → Read More
From the archive – The sound of icebergs melting: my journey into the Antarctic – podcast
This week, from 2020: Not long after Antarctica recorded some its highest-ever temperatures, I joined a group of scientists studying how human activity is transforming the continent. It wasn’t what we saw that was most astonishing – but what we heard → Read More
Brazilian meat firm’s A- sustainability rating has campaigners up in arms
Environmentalists question high grade given to JBS and accuse it of deforestation in the Amazon and under-reporting emissions → Read More
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 → Read More
Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall
Study adds to fears Amazon is approaching tipping point after which it will not be able to generate its own rainfall → Read More
Investigate Bolsonaro for genocide, says Brazil’s Marina Silva
Exclusive: Environment minister calls for ex-president to be held to account as she prepares to tackle illegal gold miners → Read More
‘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 → Read More
Human activity and drought ‘degrading more than a third of Amazon rainforest’
Fires, land conversion, logging and water shortages have weakened resilience of 2.5m sq km of forest, says study → Read More
Environmental justice targets needed to cut global inequality, say researchers
Plan unveiled at Davos to find fair limits on impact of climate and other crises, which most affect poorer countries → Read More
How the Brasília violence has its roots in Bolsonaro’s war on nature
The unrest came after President Lula unveiled ambitious environmental plans that threaten interest groups who rely on exploiting the Amazon → Read More
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 → Read More
Canada accused of putting its timber trade ahead of global environment
Weeks before Cop15 in Montreal, leaked letter to EU shows host tried to water down deforestation regulations → Read More
Dom Phillips obituary
Brazil-based UK journalist and author who championed the role of Indigenous people in saving the Amazon → Read More
The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Brazilian police have arrested two men in connection with the alleged murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. The pair went missing on an expedition in the Javari region → Read More
'Defenders of nature': a tribute to Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips – video
The Guardian's environment editor looks at Dom and Bruno's lives, their work and their legacy. → Read More
There is a war on nature. Dom Phillips was killed trying to warn you about it
Bruno Pereira highlighted the ravaging of the rainforest. Dom told his story, says Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s global environment editor → Read More
The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – podcast
Brazilian police have arrested two men in connection with the alleged murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. The pair went missing on an expedition in the Javari region → Read More
The race to mine the deep sea – podcast
One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only just beginning to understand, says global environment editor Jonathan Watts → Read More
Transform approach to Amazon or it will not survive, warns major report
Panel of 200 scientists tells Cop26 Indigenous people, business, governments and scientists must collaborate → Read More