By Fernanda Wenzel In 2021,an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest ...

Federal crackdown on environmental crimes and a gold rally that’s sent prices to record highs has driven the industry into further darkness.

Brazil’s federal government celebrated a decrease in deaths and the decline in gold mining two years after agents started to ...

Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the ...

If you follow the Malinowski River, you eventually arrive at the informal and illegal mining operations that have devastated this part of the Amazon. The road that connects the Pacific and the ...

The Madre de Dios River is a headwater tributary of the Amazon River shared by Peru and Bolivia. As the mining operations expanded, so did the ecological devastation. The miners chopped down huge ...

Voters were asked whether to ban mining in the highlands and further oil drilling in Yasuni National Park in the Amazon. With over 90% of the ballots counted, some six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected ...

a federal prosecutor assigned to illegal mining investigations across the Amazon, including the Rodrigues case. “They are creating parallel states in the middle of the Amazon. It’s terrifying.” ...