In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Mongabay
May 6, 2024, 4:05 am191 pts
Streets lie deserted. Gardens have overgrown homes. Doors and windows are bricked up. The Bebedouro neighborhood in Maceió, in Brazil’s northeastern coastal state of Alagoas, is a shadow of its former self. And soon not even that. Every building there is numbered. As soon as a property has been fenced off by…

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