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Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais
No photographs remain of João Gomes de Azevedo’s village before eucalyptus plantations radically transformed it. Instead, ...
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In Brazil’s ‘lithium valley,’ communities share how to reduce mining impacts
It’s a sunny, cloudless morning in the Poço Dantas when a sudden loud blow shakes the ground of Maria Aparecida’s* house. A ...
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Emergency declared at Brazilian state of Minas Gerais due to heavy rainfalls
Heavy rainstorms have left at least 138 cities in a state of emergency in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais due to floods ... The state of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, also suffered heavy ...