Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to get day in UK courts
The lawsuit is against the Anglo-Australian mining company BHP – one of the biggest companies in the world – for their involvement in the collapse of the Mariana dam in 2015, which released toxic mining waste down 400 miles (640km) of waterways along the Doce River. Claimants are seeking at least £5bn ($6bn) in compensation.
‘Bolsonaro’s fingerprints are all over this’: how president’s war on Amazon played part in double killing
“The bullets that kill journalists, activists and Indigenous people in Amazonia are bought with money from land grabs, illegal mining and logging,” said Marcio Astrini, the executive secretary of Observatório do Clima, an environmental NGO.
‘A whirlwind of sadness’: search for pair missing in Brazil goes on even as hope evaporates
Armed police onboard a boat searching for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in the Brazilian Amazon. Photograph: Tom Phillips/The Guardian