Manuela Andreoni

writer for the New York Times’ Climate Forward newsletter

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People are illegally mining the Amazon rainforest for gold and tin ore. Some of those elements are going to Google and Apple. The mines are threatening Indigenous communities.

Illegal mining in Brazilian Amazon is destroying soul of Indigenous tribes

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