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APRIL 17. 2025

JBS is likely to fail to deliver on its Amazon deforestation promise, ranchers say

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FEBRUARY 9. 2025

Sanctioned nuclear icebreakers helped export gas from the Russian Arctic bought by Shell

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DECEMBER 26. 2024

The best environmental journalism of 2024

Some of the stories we wish we had written this year, selected by the Unearthed team

DECEMBER 8. 2024

‘If it’s dangerous for one population, it will be for the other’: the Brazilian farmers poisoned by a banned pesticide exported from Britain

Deaths are on the rise in Brazil from diquat, a weedkiller banned in the UK but still manufactured for export to countries with weaker regulations.

NOVEMBER 20. 2024

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1, 000 times more plastic than it cleaned up

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

OCTOBER 31. 2024

JBS broke its supply chain rules buying cows from deforesters of Brazil’s wetlands

JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, bought cattle more than 100 times from a farm that was sanctioned and fined almost £2m for illegally destroying Brazil's vulnerable wetlands.

OCTOBER 2. 2024

SEPTEMBER 30. 2024

Government flood grants a ‘nightmare’ for households and businesses

Calls for reform of support system designed to help flood-proof homes

SEPTEMBER 23. 2024

AUGUST 7. 2024

Conservative minister tried to block release of sewage pollution figures

Former Defra minister Robbie Moore pressured the Environment Agency to withhold data showing record number of sewage spills, emails show

JULY 30. 2024

JUNE 26. 2024

Three quarters of England’s most precious nature sites in poor state, recent data shows

Sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) are legally protected for their rare or endangered plants or animals, rare ecosystems or geological features

JUNE 20. 2024