Author name: Ayurella Horn-Muller and Anita Hofschneider

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.