A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks
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FILE - An illegal mining camp is visible from a Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter during an operation to try to contain illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)In this combination of satellite images shows the Terra Indigena Kayapo territory in Para state, Brazil, in 2024, left, and in 2025 after visible deforestation. (Amazon Conservation/Planet Labs PBC via AP)
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FILE - An illegal mining camp is visible from a Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter during an operation to try to contain illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)
