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

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal 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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging ...

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

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

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 ...

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