Considering the nature of most communities benefiting from sensor technologies and the challenges many of them face in terms ...

A sacred site for Native Americans is on the verge of being destroyed for profit, and profit alone—just one more colonial ...

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

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

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

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

Rising temperatures could cause huge amounts of toxic materials to seep out of sealed-off mines into waterways ...

A new “cold rush” is mining northern mineral riches. Canada’s Giant Mine serves as a warning of the high and long-term cost of such expeditions.

Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Small-scale—and usually illegal—mining ...

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 ...

Mercury pollution accumulated in trees could offer a new way to keep tabs on destructive gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. “We could potentially see whether mining is starting to ...

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 ...