‘Nothing is left’: A Brazilian city bears the environmental scars of salt mining

After five decades of extraction in Maceió, houses sink and crack, and fishers struggle. A new investigation in congress may bring justice
<p>Aerial view of banana trees planted in an agroforestry system in Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo state, Brazil, a site Diálogo Chino visited in 2023. Agroforestry may see the planting of trees in and around pastures, or farming carried out within a forest. (Image: Lucas Ninno / Diálogo Chino)</p>
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Diálogo Chino’s best photo stories of 2023

Our editors pick their favourite shots from a year of reporting across Latin America, from the high plains of Bolivia to Pacific reefs, the Amazon rainforest and more

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