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PART OF: The Tech Supply Chain in the Amazon

Mining Company Under Investigation for Pollution in Amazonas Supplied Toyota and a Tesla Supplier (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

March 31, 2026
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PART OF: Roots Without Memory: Why Cultural Erosion Is the Amazon’s Invisible Gateway to Deforestation

As Traditional Forest Governance Erodes in Peru, ‘Ghost Permits’ Fill the Vacuum

Michele Calamaio
2025 Post-Grad Reporting Fellow

March 30, 2026
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When AI Comes for Our Land

As the AI race speeds up, Brazil communities are paying the price.

Multiple Authors

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Pulitzer Center Update

Brazilian Bill Targeting Facial Recognition in Schools Cites AI Fellow's Investigation

A proposed law in Brazil— prompted by reporting from Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellow Nico...

Cate Riccio
Pulitzer Center Staff

March 27, 2026
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Pulitzer Center Update

AI Fellow's Probe Into European Facial Recognition in Brazilian Schools Prompts New Legislation

A Pulitzer Center-supported investigation into the use of European-made facial recognition...

Nico Schmidt
AI Fellow

March 26, 2026
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Illegal Manganese Mining Wrecks Amazon Biodiversity

Illegal extraction of the mineral has exploded.

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: The Indigenous Nukak Return Home and Restore the Colombian Amazon

After Decades of Displacement, a Nukak Family Returns to the Jungle (Spanish)

Christina Noriega
Grantee

March 22, 2026
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PART OF: Sowing in the Dark: Smallholder Farming Amid the Climate Crisis in Colombia's Montes de María

The Sky No Longer Gives Warning: The Isolation of Small-Scale Farming in the Face of the Climate Crisis in María La Baja (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

March 17, 2026
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Automated Gaze

How European companies are exporting facial recognition technology

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: Automated Gaze

Blocked in Europe, Deployed Abroad: The Facial Recognition System Monitoring Brazil’s Schoolchildren

Multiple Authors

March 13, 2026
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PART OF: Journey To Death: Trafficking of Exotic Frogs From Colombia To the World

Life as a Trinket: The Illegal Trade Threatening Colombia’s Frogs (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

March 11, 2026
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Reefs on the Edge: The Slow, Hidden Collapse Beneath Rapa Nui’s Waters

The largely invisible collapse of deep-sea coral reefs surrounding Rapa Nui.

Barinia Montoya Montenegro
Grantee

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