As can happen when mammoth projects are planned in Indigenous communities, Brazil Potash’s plans are sparking fears of environmental impact and creating divisions. Opponents fear that mining will ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous ...