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

Surging gold prices lead to more illegal mining in the Amazon, contributing to deforestation and pollution on Indigenous lands. High gold prices are bad news for the Amazon rainforest, fueling demand ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome ...

is at the heart of the country’s illegal gold-mining trade, so a friend suggested raising the money by having sex with miners, deep in the Amazon. “Going to the mines is a roll of the dice ...

Once estimated as 20,000 in the territory, hundreds of illegal miners still remain and may expand business at the slightest ...

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 ...

Lula also warned that illegal mining is completely forbidden and will be fought by his government. “If there is gold in Roraima, in the indigenous land, that gold does not belong to anyone ...

His single-propeller Cessna plane was loaded with more than 100 pounds of gold ... the Amazon. The haul, worth more than $4 million at today’s prices, had been pulled out of the rainforest ...

Illegal gold mining, driven by record-high global prices ... Açaí is harvested sustainably from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Amapá. Açaí makes up a key segment of the bioeconomy.

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled ... Peru – Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a half-dozen Peruvian military vehicles are rumbling along a dirt path that cuts through dense ...

illegal mining, and the pandemic. The more we know about forests – and the causes of their destruction – the more we can help spread the word about the issues. To fully understand what’s happening in ...