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Great party, shame about the legacy

Article Jonathan Watts - 28 Apr 2016

Despite a frightening list of problems there is confidence that Rio will be ready for the Olympic Games – but long-term benefits are in doubt.

Rousseff’s supporters play for time

Article Jonathan Watts - 21 Apr 2016

The beleagured Workers’ Party believes people will tire quickly of the opposition leaders.

Child (10) denied an abortion

Article Jonathan Watts - 7 May 2015

“The first step that should be taken in pregnancies of girls under 13 should be an abortion,” say activists.

People’s cup but politician’s stage

Article Jonathan Watts - 10 Jul 2014

The 2014 World Cup has seen unprecedented levels of outrage and debate over poverty, Fifa, commercialism … and occasionally football.

Brazilian soap opera beats politics

Article Jonathan Watts - 30 Oct 2012

The last episode of Avenida Brasil was a melodrama

Poor Amazonians cursed with riches

Article Jonathan Watts - 19 Oct 2012

A petro-giant is sweet-talking Amazonian villagers blessed with land that has resources worth billions. Jonathan Watts reports.

Big ideas at sideshow to Rio+20

Article Jonathan Watts - 21 Jun 2012

Only one thing unites those at the People's Summit -- unhappiness over the status quo, writes Jonathan Watts.

Alarm bells ring over activist death toll

Article Jonathan Watts - 19 Jun 2012

A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.

Black cloud over China’s green growth

Article Jonathan Watts - 27 Jan 2012

China making huge strides in using green energy but coal consumption continues to increase.

‘Another 20 to 30 years’ of unhealthy air for China’s city dwellers

Article Jonathan Watts - 4 Jan 2012

A haze expert has warned that despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution in urban China, dangerous smog will persist for decades.

Villagers in Chinese land dispute plead for help

Article Jonathan Watts - 15 Dec 2011

Chinese villagers have called on their government to intervene in a bloody land dispute that has claimed at least one life so far.

China uneasy over US-Australia troop deal

Article Jonathan Watts - 17 Nov 2011

Beijing fears a policy of encirclement as US President Barack Obama announces plans to begin stationing 2 500 troops in northern Australia.

Chinese dams drown livelihoods

Africa Jonathan Watts - 19 Sep 2011

345 000 people are being relocated in a desperate bid to ease Beijing's drought crisis by transfusing water from the Yangtze basin

Not even enough fuel for cremation

Article Jonathan Watts - 18 Mar 2011

An estimated 10 000 people have died in Ishinomaki. <b>Jonathan Watts</b> finds a desperate effort to feed the living as the bodies pile up.

China to tax heavy polluters

Article Jonathan Watts - 25 Feb 2011

China is to impose an environmental tax on heavy polluters under an ambitious clean-up strategy being finalised in Beijing.

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