Brazilian soy farms and cattle pastures close in on a land where the grass is golden

Mongabay
Feb 4, 2025, 7:21 am57 ptsTrending
JALAPÃO, Brazil — The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now, drought has advanced a barrier of dead vegetation through this once-humid oasis, called a vereda by the people who live in the Jalapão region of central Brazil. A…

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