Brazil’s top court breaks Indigenous mining deadlock

Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling allowing Cinta Larga Indigenous communities to legally conduct mineral exploration in four territories under temporary safeguards while lawmakers develop long-delayed legislation that governs mining on Indigenous lands. The decision upholds a March 2025 ruling by...

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