For Brazil communities along a mining railway, impacts outweigh any benefits

Mongabay
Jun 23, 2022, 2:38 pm188 pts
“Many people have died on this railroad, killed by the trains,” says Deusimar de Oliveira Santos, a resident of the community of Auzilândia in Brazil’s Maranhão state, echoing a common refrain by locals here. “I have a deep headache, almost every day. I’ve had this headache for over five years now.…

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