“The company took our wealth”: the struggle of Ribeirinhos who lost their river to Alcoa
By Hyury Potter (text) and João Laet (photos), Amazon River, Juruti, the Amazon – July 2, 2025
A US mining company with a history of environmental disasters wants to extract bauxite from the Serra do Uxituba, in Pará state, an area of conserved Forest and archeological sites
read article
‘Divide and conquer’ – Belo Sun’s tactics cause consternation along Xingu river
By Hyury Potter (text) and João Laet (photos), Xingu River, Altamira, Pará – December 18, 2024
The Canadian gold mining company is accused of stirring up communal strife and other irregularities in an area already impacted by Belo Monte
read article
Vale usurps 24,000 hectares of public lands in the Amazon
By Sílvia Lisboa (text)* and João Laet (photos), Canaã dos Carajás, Pará – May 2, 2024
With the agrarian reform agency’s failure to act, a Brazilian multinational, that irregularly bought federal lands a few years ago, is now pressuring landless rural workers and striving to demobilize social movements in southeast Pará. Reporting done in partnership between King’s College London and SUMAÚMA
read article
Norwegian and French companies turn Barcarena into a city of environmental disasters
By Helena Palmquist and Catarina Barbosa, Barcarena, Pará* – March 14, 2024
The Amazonian municipality has had nearly 30 accidents in two decades, 16 of them connected to Norway's Norsk Hydro and France's Imerys, and residents fear contamination from heavy metals and a 636% spike in cancer cases from 2000 to 2022
read article
Cargill wants to expand its destruction in the Amazon
By Isabel Harari (text) and Alessandro Falco (photos), Abaetetuba/Pará – October 2, 2023
Despite failing to meet legal requirements, the U.S.-based corporation operates two ports exporting soy from Pará. Now it wants to build a third. Though the project has not yet left the drawing board, the Public Prosecutor’s Office suspects the proposed site around the Abaetetuba islands was irregularly acquired
read article