REVEALED: Records show dozens of changes in Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN) tailings dams in Pará and communities fear disasters

Mineração Rio do Norte, controlled by a pool of large global mining companies and now led by Swiss trader Glencore, is Brazil’s largest producer of…

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Divided by mining: indigenous people in Pará fight to maintain their identity against the railroad that feeds the global steel industry

By Maurício Angelo and Sarah Sax Photos by Ingrid Barros Seen from above, the Indigenous Territory Mãe Maria is a 62,000 hectare square of green…

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Pure Dynamite: Report produced by Mining Observatory and Smoke Signal reviews the explosive legacy of the Bolsonaro government’s mining policy

Today, Mining Observatory (Observatório da Mineração) and the socio-environmental monitoring organization Smoke Signal [Sinal de Fumaça] launch the report “Pure Dynamite: how Bolsonaro’s Government (2019-2022)…

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Elon Musk eyes on the Amazon as Bolsonaro government tries to liquidate Latin America’s only chip factory

Original story by Maurício Angelo, translated by: Gabriela Sarmet Literally destroying a cutting-edge technology company, a reference in Latin America and one of the few in…

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Investment funds injected US$ 54 billion into mining companies with interests in Indigenous territories in the Amazon

The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), alongside environmental and human rights organization Amazon Watch with the support of The Mining Observatory, launched “Complicity…

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Foreign ambassadors’ influence on Bolsonaro’s strategy to authorize mining on indigenous lands

Original story by Maurício Angelo, translated by: Gabriela Sarmet Foreign ambassadors working in Brazil are frequently consulted by Jair Bolsonaro’s government on policies for the mineral…

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Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook are part of the group who asked brazilian government to ditch environmental regulations

Some of the world’s biggest technology companies are behind a Brazilian lobby group that made a project used as a basis by the Ministry of…

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