By David Brown Small-scale gold mining is a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon, and researchers found that in Guyana ...

By Adriano Machado, Lais Morais and Ricardo Brito ITAITUBA, Brazil, May 29 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of gold is ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

Gold prices soar. Illegal mining spreads. The Amazon rainforest pays the price. NHK traveled to Peru's front lines to examine ...

Indigenous chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire is once again preparing to lead a group of warriors to chase wildcat gold miners away from his people's territory in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. In February, guns ...

A new report reveals that escalating demands for minerals, biofuels, and pulp are driving rainforests like the Amazon closer to ecological collapse.

BRASILIA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Environmental enforcement agents deep in the Amazon rainforest swooped down on an illegal mine in a dawn raid in early November, in a campaign to tamp down on such ...

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is ...

Global demand for critical minerals, used to build drones and electric cars, is surging, setting off a new wave of criminality in the world’s largest rainforest. — Victor Moriyama/The New York Times ...