Brazil urged to widen illegal mining crackdown after Yanomami raid

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

UN calls for integrated efforts to protect Yanomami children

Illegal mining activities have caused socio-environmental problems, mainly due to the contamination of rivers with mercury ...
Global News - Inquirer.net on MSN

Brazil’s ex-human rights minister formally accused of sexual misconduct

Brazil's then Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida delivers a speech during an interministerial visit to address the ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Brazil strikes deal with Musk's Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

Brasilia, BRAZIL (AP) — Brazil's Federal Prosecutor's Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the ...
WKYC3

Musk brought internet to Brazil’s Amazon. Criminals love it.

ATALAIA DO NORTE, State of Amazonas — Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. They were met with gunfire, and the ...
insider.si.edu

The falling sky : words of a Yanomami shaman / Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert ; translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy

The shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami tribe of the Brazilian Amazon describes the culture conflicts his people have faced in Western industrial society and global politics, issuing a plea for the ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Brazil makes deal with Starlink

Brasilia, BRAZIL -- Brazil's Federal Prosecutor's Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the Amazon ...
clickondetroit.com

Brazil strikes deal with Musk's Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

FILE - In this image provided by IBAMA, Brazil's Environmental Agency, a Starlink internet unit produced by Elon Musk's company is seized from an illegal mining pit in a remote part of the Brazilian ...