Gold Mining Thugs Cut “Road to Chaos” Through Amazonian Preserve

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The surveillance plane eased off the runway and banked west towards the frontline of one of Brazil’s most dramatic environmental and humanitarian crises. Its objective: a clandestine 75-mile road that illegal mining mafias have carved out of the jungles of Brazil’s […]