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Ghost neighborhoods on edge of a mining catastrophe in Brazil

epaselect epa11023774 A wall with a message stating 'How much does the story of a life cost? on a disabled property in the Bebeduro neighborhood, near the Brazkem petrochemical mine in Maceio, Brazil, 11 December 2023. The evacuated neighborhoods of Maceio, the capital of the state of Alagoas, await the outcome of the last mining catastrophe in Brazil, which could end hundreds of houses engulfed by a large mine of salt that falls apart. They were the homes of more than 60,000 people who have been evicted preventively since 2018 when the Brazkem petrochemistry company observed the first sinking signs of the soil where it excavated dozens of underground galleries for the exploitation of rock salt during almost half a century. EPA/ANDRE COELHO

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