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Rare earth rush endangers rural communities and conservation areas in Brazil

Surge in critical minerals claims puts Brazil’s land reform communities at risk

Mining companies use legal loopholes to move forward without environmental licensing off the Brazilian coast

Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group

For Brazil communities along a mining railway, impacts outweigh any benefits

Millennia of Indigenous history faces erasure as mining grips Brazil’s Tapajós

Grain production depends on ending deforestation, studies show

333 people rescued from slavery in Brazil mines since 2008, exclusive report shows

Indigenous communities in Brazil reinvent grief in the time of COVID

World’s richest tin mine pollutes rivers serving Amazon Indigenous villages

Specter of tailings disaster looms after spill at Canadian firm’s Brazil mine

Study: Brazil govt undercounts Indigenous deaths from COVID-19 by half

Study shows more than half of Cerrado’s cattle pasture can be restored

Anglo American won’t rule out mining on Indigenous lands in the Amazon

Persistence of slave labor exposes lawlessness of Amazon gold mines

Gold and diamonds fail to shine as drivers of Amazon development

When invaders moved onto their land, Brazil’s Karipuna people pushed back

Surrounded by intruders, the last of Brazil’s Piripkura hold out in the Amazon

As Brazil burns, Indigenous fire brigades face an uncertain future

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Amazon road projects could lead to Belize-size loss of forest, study shows

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Canada’s Belo Sun hits legal hurdles in bid to mine indigenous land in Brazil

Anglo American seeking to mine on indigenous lands in Brazil’s Amazon

Painting with fire: Cerrado land managers learn from traditional peoples

Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples

Cerrado in crisis: One Brazilian farm family commits to sustainable soy

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

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