“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
Will the Lula administration drill for oil at the mouth of the Amazon River?
Understanding and working to block this destructive project is also a responsibility of the SUMAÚMA community
‘Everybody has mercury poisoning—children, old people, pregnant women.’
This is life in Katõ Village, in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, one of the lands hardest hit by illegal mining. If such mercury contamination were detected in a wealthy neighborhood in an urban area of Brazil, how would the State and the press react?
How did 570 indigenous children die from the negligence of the Bolsonaro government?
The careful steps journalism must take to avoid committing acts of violence while denouncing violence.
Gold and Beef: Ronaldo’s recipe for disaster
Former Brazil striker claims he ate gold leaf steak with current members of the national team to inspire people, but his choice could hardly have been worse
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government set to erase indigenous communities from 2022 Census
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics lacks resources to survey three indigenous areas, which will impact government policies for a decade
Message to Lula 1: Listen to Brazil’s indigenous peoples
What do the peoples of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes want from the president-elect? These communities have demands that cannot wait.
Munduruku mothers fear breast milk is tainted with mercury
New study points to illegal mining as the source of high levels of contamination in the blood of Indigenous people in the Middle Tapajós region of the Amazon
