The illegal activity of gold mining was a thriving business deep within the forest canopies and infiltrated nature, leaving ...

Pará is Brazil’s biggest grower of cacao, which grows in the shade of native trees ... to luxury cruises down the Amazon—to lure high-paying visitors to the forest with minimum impact.

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is just as sought after, but the ...

The Rio Iriri Extractive Reserve is a publicly owned piece of the forest where the ... Brazil who moved to the Amazon in the 1850s to exploit latex from rubber trees. Today, their economy is ...

The Atlantic Forest, second in biodiversity only to the Amazon, with nearly as many tree ... placing the seedlings roughly ten feet apart, 2,000 trees per hectare. Fig species, long-leafed ...

The Amazon rainforest is being felled so that a new highway can be built ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

One site was also adjacent to protected forest lands ... spy rings of fig trees may soon offer a cheap, powerful means for regional monitoring and conservation work in the Amazon.