Permits granted for the construction of an industrial mining project in northern Colombia are raising concerns among ...

The European Union-funded Landscapes and Environmental Agility across the Nation (EU-LEAN) Project, has promoted sustainable ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Nearly 40% of the Amazon's vital climate regions are unprotected, raising concerns about deforestation and the urgent need ...

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 ...

Pressure mounted on the European Union on Friday to delay a ban on imports of products driving deforestation, after Germany became the latest country to request the rules be postponed.