Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, pushing deep into the rainforest and indigenous lands. Small-scale operations set up primarily illicitly and operated in the ...

G old mining is putting an immense strain on the Amazon rainforest, but the trees might have a secret weapon up their bark.

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

Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Small-scale—and usually illegal—mining operations dredge the mineral from subsoil or river ...

Lula, illegal mining destroyed 4,219 hectares of Amazon rainforest — equivalent to about 5,900 football fields — in areas demarcated as protected Indigenous land by the state, where ...

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. But unlike other espionage efforts, there is no risk of betrayal ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...