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As the first climate summit in the Amazon approaches, a gulf is opening between what the area’s farming lobby wants, and what the world needsRevealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges againThe life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforestYellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-century cowboy is about 7,500 miles south, in what used to be the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where the reality of raising cattle

Health minister Karin Smyth says ‘it’s good we have clarity for women’ as Tories call for ruling to be ‘reinforced with legislation’Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has described yesterday’s supreme court ruling as “a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise that trans people exist.”Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Falkner said:It’s a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise that trans people exist. They have rights, and their rights must be respected – then it becomes a victory for common sense.It’s not a victory for an increase

UK foreign secretary to join Trump envoys and Emmanuel Macron to hear European concerns about Russia and elusive truceDavid Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, is expected to attend talks on Ukraine and Iran on Thursday with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and Donald Trump’s envoys Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff.Rubio, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and Witkoff, a special envoy, are due in Paris to hear European foreign ministers’ concerns about Russia amid so-far fruitless US attempts to arrange a ceasefire in Ukraine, while Britain and France are forming a “coalition of the willing” that would back the