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

In the remoteAmazon rainforest, trees are becoming unexpected ... from small-scale gold mining extend beyond the Amazon. Artisanal gold mining is a significant source of mercury contamination.

Gold mining in Amapá isn’t as intensive as in other Amazon states ... to take more risks and explore new areas deeper in the forest, where logistics are much pricier. That’s the case of ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today ... mining activity and lower at the mining-impacted site adjacent to protected forest and the sites far from mining ...

At least 11 Ecuadorean troops were killed Friday in an ambush during an operation against illegal gold mining in the Alto ...

For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited for its gold. Today, the precious metal is ... sites close to mining activity and lower at the mining-impacted site adjacent to protected forest ...

Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the second-tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest ... a 1-km radius around each giant tree. Gold mining in Amapá was previously less intensive ...

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

In a horrific conclusion, the bodies of 13 security guards who were kidnapped from a Peruvian gold mine over a week ago were ...

Wild fig trees may provide an inexpensive, effective way to monitor mercury pollution near artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites throughout the Global South, a recent study suggests.

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