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Critical Minerals Bill Advances Without Considering Risks, Experts Warn
An illegal gold-mining site carved into the Amazon rainforest, 2026. Photograph by CAJ Staff Photographer. A new Brazilian bill aims to accelerate Brazil’s role in the global critical minerals race, but environmental experts warn that the legislation is advancing…
The Gold of Abandonment and the Nukak: How Guainía’s Mining Frontier Presses on a People Already Facing Extinction
An investigation into informal gold mining in Guainía found Colombia’s heaviest mercury contamination. This piece follows that frontier upriver to the Nukak, a recently contacted nomadic people the Constitutional Court says faces extinction, and marks where the record …
Brazil as the Saudi Arabia of Biofuels
Brazil is pushing to become a global biofuels superpower, a strategy that would reshape land use across the Amazon and Cerrado, The Intercept Brasil reports.
Study: Amazon Resists Fire but Regenerates with Less Diversity
The 2024 Brazilian Amazon fire season was among the worst on record; a study finds the forest resists fire but regenerates with less biodiversity, Mongabay Brasil reports.
Federal Police to Investigate Miner for Contamination in Indigenous Land in Amazonas
Brazil’s Federal Police opened an investigation into possible heavy-metal contamination from mining on the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous Territory in Amazonas, Reporter Brasil reports.
Critical Minerals: Policy Negotiated Behind Closed Doors in Senate Without Social Movements
Indigenous, quilombola and labor movements warn that Brazil’s critical-minerals policy is being negotiated behind closed doors in the Senate, without them, Agencia Publica reports.
“This waterway will kill the fisherman,” say riverside communities of the Tocantins River
Riverine communities on the Tocantins warned that a planned waterway threatens their livelihoods: this waterway will kill the fisherman, Mongabay Brasil reports.
Eviction Order Against Pataxó Village Suspended in Southern Bahia
A Brazilian court suspended an order that would have displaced about 200 Pataxo people from their village in southern Bahia, Mongabay Brasil reports.
‘Disguised Colonialism’: Indigenous Peoples Criticize Just Transition Model That Does Not Ensure Territory Protection
Indigenous representatives from multiple Amazon nations rejected just transition projects that fail to protect their territories, warning of disguised colonialism, InfoAmazonia reports.
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