Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again
Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle
Thu 17 Apr 2025 12.00 BST
Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again
Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers.
Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter. JBS, the Brazil-headquartered multinational that dominates the Brazilian cattle market, promised to address this with a commitment to clean up its beef supply chain in the region by the end of 2025.
Myanmar junta pardons 4,900 prisoners to mark new year
Myanmar's military government announced releasing around 4,900 prisoners, with 13 foreigners among them, in a mass amnesty to mark its traditional new year.
Myanmar's junta chief pardoned 4,893 prisoners on Thursday to mark the country's traditional new year, state media reported.
The junta also said in a separate statement that it would release 13 foreigners who will be deported from Myanmar.
Around 22,197 political detainees, including Myanmar's military-ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, have been in detention as of last week, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an independent watchdog in Myanmar.
At least 37 people killed in Israeli strikes, most in displacement camps, Gaza rescuers say
Gaza rescuers said Thursday that Israeli air strikes on Gaza had killed at least 37 people, mostly women and children sheltering in displacement camps, as Israel pressed its military offensive amid stalled ceasefire talks.
Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday that a series of Israeli air strikes killed at least 37 people, most of them in encampments for displaced civilians, as Israel pressed its unrelenting military offensive in the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment, but said it was looking into reports of the strikes, which came as Hamas officials said internal deliberations on the latest Israeli truce offer were nearly complete.
Russia removes Afghan Taliban from list of banned terrorist groups
By Reuters
Two years into Sudan’s war, where is its civil society?
Civil activists negotiate with warring sides to work but face harassment, arrests, and accusations of bias.
When Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over most of the country’s capital Khartoum in the early days of the war, the youth-led civil society initiative Hadhreen kept its food kitchens – a vital lifeline for those in need – open.
It was risky. Countless examples of RSF violence against civilians and looting have been recorded since Sudan’s war started in April 2023.
Scientists find 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet
Pallab Ghosh
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.
This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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