The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

The gang’s presence is being felt all over the forest — in gang ... wreckage of illegal gold mining. The practice accounts for only a fraction of Amazon deforestation, far less than ...

This is not the gold trade of mining companies listed on the ... It's not for everyone but visiting this part of the Amazon is special. These experiences, as well as the ecological functioning of the ...

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

Brazil’s federal government celebrated a decrease in deaths and the decline in gold mining two years after agents started to ...

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled ... Peru – Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a half-dozen Peruvian military vehicles are rumbling along a dirt path that cuts through dense ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest ... Employees and mining experts say the Chinese companies use mercury in their operations, used to separate gold from ore. Mercury is considered ...