During this term, Brazil’s president has reduced deforestation but he is government is pushing projects that would open up the Amazon to extractivism.

A group of Brazilian researchers using satellite data to track illegal deforestation are on a mission to hit the people ...

In a blow to illegal gold miners along South America's Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges ...

A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the ...

Interpol and partners have launched a global law enforcement effort to fight illegal deforestation in tropical areas.

In a blow to criminal organizations along South America’s Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges ...

The Madeira River, one of the Amazon’s largest tributaries, flows from the Andes through Bolivia into northern Brazil before ...

By Lucas Berti The Brazilian Constitution bans illegal mining on Indigenous lands under any circumstances. But the high ...

Gold has been rising months now, with investors loading up on the safe-haven asset amid mounting economic risks even as equities nabbed record highs left and right. The bill has finally come, with ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” threatening ...

Investors ain’t seen nothing yet when it comes to the value of gold, a top mining executive said after the precious metal reached a record-breaking price this week. Gold could climb to $5,000 an ounce ...