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

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

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

Meta, owner of Facebook, remains silent, and other mentioned parties could not be reached; the Federal Prosecutor's Office ...

The mining by the drug gangs mostly happens on Indigenous lands in remote parts of the Amazon, he said. The first indisputable evidence of this development was in 2021 at the indigenous settlement ...

A scientific report released Monday by the organization MapBiomas showed that 65% of mining activities carried out in the Brazilian Amazon basin were not legal. MapBiomas also reported illegal ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Five months after a major operation by federal forces, illegal mining dredges are back on the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon. The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of ...