Startseite
Podcasts
Science Weekly Podcast
Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode one: the stakes

Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode one: the stakes

Science Weekly vor 11 Monaten

In episode one of this miniseries from June 2025, Jon explores what’s at stake if we fail to act in time. He hears about the crucial role of the rainforest for South America and the global climate, and asks how cattle ranching came to dominate and destroy

0:00

27:57

Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to
the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he
was murdered: how to save the Amazon? In episode one of this
miniseries from June 2025, Jon explores what’s at stake if we fail
to act in time. He hears about the crucial role of the rainforest
for South America and the global climate, and asks how cattle
ranching came to dominate and destroy huge swathes of the
rainforest – pushing it to a dangerous tipping point today. Help
support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod