Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

In the remoteAmazon rainforest, trees are becoming unexpected sentinels against environmental destruction caused by illegal gold mining. New research shows that mercury pollution, a toxic ...

Additionally, higher mercury levels in mining-adjacent fig trees also coincided with the historical rise in amalgam burning that began after the year 2000. “We show[ed] ...

An Australian study has found gold particles in the leaves of this species typical of the Cantabrian Coast and Galicia.

Tree Rings Bear Witness to Illegal Gold Mining Operations in the Amazon, New Study Finds Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the remaining tiny gold particles are much harder to find. Mining often ...

Wild fig trees may provide an inexpensive, effective way to monitor mercury pollution near artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites throughout the Global South, a recent study suggests ...

Cliff Drouet is a forester in the Office of Surface Mining in Lexington. In an interview with WEKU's Eastern Standard, he ...

Ranchi: Once hailed as India's green steel forest, the Saranda region of West Singhbhum is showing signs of slow ecological ...