Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, especially in the Amazon. A new study offers one of the most ...
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has been ...
When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...
The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...
In a recent article published in Nature Communications, researchers investigated the multifaceted impacts of mining activities in Brazil, emphasizing their environmental and economic consequences. The ...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination in the bodies ...
Jaguar Mining (OTCQX:JAGGF) +2.2% in Monday's trading after saying it negotiated a settlement for an environmental fine with Brazil's Minas Gerais state that will reduce the liability from 320M reais ...