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

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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 ...

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

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled the destruction of a massive swath of rainforest and the killing of dozens of environmental activists. By Lisa Cavazuti, Cynthia McFadden ...

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 gemstone market value is $23bn and growing, as investors increasingly look to precious stone alternatives to the ...

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

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

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

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

But other parts of the state are still reeling from a decline in coal mining, which was a major economic driver ...