Revealed: fires three times more common in Amazon beef farming zones

Investigation reveals 70% of Nasa fire alerts were in the estimated buying zones of beef companies, some of which export to UK

• Calls grow for laws requiring firms to reveal links to deforestation
• World Bank urged to rethink investment in one of Brazil's big beef companies

Fires were three times more common in beef-producing zones than in the rest of the Amazon this summer, according to a new analysis.

The findings once again draw attention to the links between Brazil's powerful beef industry and the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, just as the world debates climate change at COP25.