Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edinizia Karo Munduruku poses for a picture with her daughter Ewayne Yoto, during a mission by researchers from the Brazilian ...

For more than three decades, one of the country’s largest gold deposits lay dormant, its pits filling with water and its name ...

Authorities from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname conducted a first-ever joint operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Supported by Interpol and other organizations, the ...

Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname announced Thursday the arrest of nearly 200 individuals in a transnational operation to combat illegal gold mining in the ...

The toxic legacy of gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest could finance its own remediation while creating more than 200,000 jobs that transform illegal extraction into a regulated industry, a new ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren’t growing back after gold mining — not just because the soil is damaged from toxic metals, but because the land has been depleted of its water. A common mining ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Edinizia Karo Munduruku poses for a picture with her daughter Ewayne Yoto, during a mission by researchers from the Brazilian public health institute Fiocruz to investigate health disorders among ...

SAI CINZA, Brazil (Reuters) -Deep in the Amazon, Indigenous women say they fear getting pregnant. Rivers that have been the lifeblood of their people now carry mercury from illegal gold mining, ...