FILE - In this image provided by IBAMA, Brazil's Environmental Agency, a Starlink internet unit produced by Elon Musk's company is seized from an illegal mining pit in a remote part of the Brazilian ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged landscape becomes visible with its gaping wounds carved by illegal gold mining.

PALIMIU, Brazil—As two helicopters from Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama and the police landed in a clearing in the heart of the Amazon, the hard-bitten men who make a living illegally panning for ...

Brasilia, BRAZIL (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the ...