The Madeira River, one of the Amazon’s largest tributaries, flows from the Andes through Bolivia into northern Brazil before ...

In recent years, Brazil has become an unexpected hub for cryptocurrency mining, driven by an unexpected ally—clean energy. As one of the largest producers of renewable energy worldwide, Brazil is ...

Some of the world’s biggest mining companies have withdrawn requests to research and extract minerals on Indigenous land in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and have repudiated Brazilian President Jair ...

In 1992, Sydney Possuelo, then the head of Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai, led an operation to evict thousands of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The area used for informal mining in Brazil has for years surpassed that used for industrial mining, according to data shared on Tuesday by the Brazilian Mining ...

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 ...

More than three years after it was announced, Brazil’s Mining Policy Council has officially been installed, with a renewed focus on critical minerals and rare earths. The Brazilian government formally ...

FILE - Indigenous people painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on their land, in ...