A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from ...

By Emma Black For two years, a volunteer organization in eastern Sierra Leone worked to encourage residents of Kenema ...

Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and ...

Embattled political systems in Latin America make it difficult for conservationists and environmental policymakers to ...

Discover how organised crime and illegal mining in the Amazon rainforest threatens Indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Brazil has significantly reduced illegal gold mining in the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon. The operation, led by Nilton Tubino under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has also tackled a ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting ...

The Rainforest Café will host a popup at the Empire State Building after an April Fool's Day joke left nostalgic fans campaigning to make it real. Getty Images No monkey business. New Yorkers ...

Brazil's Federal Police conducted multiple raids targeting a criminal group accused of laundering 3.1 metric tons of gold ...

Reports show it failed (or sabotaged) airspace control and food deliveries to the Indigenous people, who suffer from ...

A sandmining project chaired by ALP president and former treasurer Wayne Swan will likely cause “long term and serious” ...

Researchers have since warned of the rise in deforestation for agriculture and how it is making it easier for illicit logging and mining. Ipenaza said some effort has been made by authorities in ...