A new analysis of archived satellite imagery has revealed that the growing presence of small-scale mining in the Peruvian ...

It was gold that brought the Spanish conquistadors to Peru in the 1500s. More than 500 years on and the precious metal is ...

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

The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” in ... net carbon dioxide than the Amazon Rainforest, making it important in ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

Over the past decade, gold has nearly tripled in price, reaching record highs earlier this month. One can smuggle more than ...

Colombia’s Procurator’s Office says the country has lost nearly 88,900 hectares of forest — an area larger than New York City ...

Stare into the eyes of an Amazon tree snake, explore the inside of a lava tube, and dive into an underwater cave. Find your ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities face growing threats from organized crime, yet are largely invisible to the state, ...

Gold is one of the most important metals on the planet. For millennia it has been used in jewelry, art and currency, capturing the collective imagination as a thing of wonder. Gold's association with ...

Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time,” said his nonprofit Instituto Terra.