So much work went into this story, and now, finally, it's out. Our investigation into the carbon credit bonanza in the Amazon rainforest -- where companies are reaping a fortune off land they have no right to -- leading today's Washington Post.

🛑 Na capa do The Washington Post hoje!! Nossa investigação durou 6 meses e descobriu uma situação alarmante: A maioria dos projetos de crédito de carbono na Amazônia se sobrepõe a áreas públicas, sem autorização e com muita grana que não chega nas mãos de quem deveria. 👇🏻👇🏻

Um trabalho duro, de muito foco, viagem, entrevistas, contas, checagens, contas, rechecagens, investigação. Jornalismo profissional faz diferença no mundo, gente. Que honra trabalhar ao lado dos incríveis Terrence McCoy e Júlia Ledur, com ajuda mágica de Cecília do Lago ❤️

You know Simone Biles. Now meet her biggest challenger: Rebeca Andrade, the 25-year-old Brazilian whom Biles herself helped pushed thru injuries and doubts to set up “a grand duel in Paris.” By Marina Dias & Terrence McCoy: washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

We have the inside story on how Rebeca Andrade came back from three catastrophic knee injuries to today defeat Simone Biles -- who for years quietly quietly encouraged Andrade, telling her continue no matter what. wapo.st/4cjiYtr

SPORTSMANSHIP Team USA's Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles honor Rebeca Andrade after the Brazilian won Gold in the Floor Exercise. Marina Dias and Terrence McCoy wrote about the mutual admiration society between Biles and Andrade, the world's top gymnasts washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

Brazil police say they've solved the murder of The Washington Post contributor Dom Phillips & Indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira, charging that oversaw illegal poaching and fishing in a remote part of the Amazon. Read this sobering Terrence McCoy piece washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/…

In 2022, my friend Dom Phillips was murdered and his body dismembered in a shocking act of violence that still haunt all who knew him. Police now say they have finally solved who killed him and Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira and why. It was revenge. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/…

NEW: As Trump vows to eliminate birthright citizenship, we go inside the obscure "birth tourism" industry sending what could be thousands of women every year into the U.S. to birth to their children and secure for them U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/4hWxo6v

It sometimes seemed to Ricardo Rezende as if no one still remembered what had happened at Volkswagen’s cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon — the forced labor, the torture and violence, the deception and horror. But Rezende did. He’d recorded it all. wapo.st/3GQLucu

Volkswagen participated in one of the world’s first grand experiments in globalization half a century ago, partnering with Brazil’s authoritarian regime to develop the Amazon — and pressing poor, unwitting workers into service in the distant rainforest. wapo.st/3GQLucu