Poverty and poor border controls have allowed young women to be trafficked into the sex trade catering to illegal gold miners ...

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Leo do the same?

As governments rush to secure supplies of the transition minerals needed, activists want a treaty with stronger governance ...

AWAY from the ancient stones of Machu Picchu, Peru is a nation in the grip of a brutal crime wave, with hundreds of gangs holding locals and tourists in the country to ransom.  To their ...

Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado, who died Friday, spent five decades chronicling the best and worst of planet ...

Voters in Suriname this weekend will elect all 51 members of the National Assembly, who will then choose the president, ...

Minnesota-based F3 Gold ... for a gold mining exploration project near Jenny Gulch in the Pactola area, is proposing 39 drill sites across five acres of Black Hills National Forest land west ...

Gold mining in the canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier. Geographically, Glen Canyon extends 169 miles ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest rainforest and river system, and the most biologically diverse place on earth. It covers roughly 40% of South America, spanning Brazil, Bolivia, Peru ...

The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat that ...

The world-renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado died Friday in Paris. He was 81 years old. Salgado won global ...

From Pittsburgh to SXSW, one student endeavors to amplify youth voices and enhance equitable decision-making around global ...