Federal crackdown on environmental crimes and a gold rally that’s sent prices to record highs has driven the industry into ...

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 ...

Once estimated as 20,000 in the territory, hundreds of illegal miners still remain and may expand business at the slightest ...

Officials in Colombia hope phytoremediation is applied in other places damaged by mining, after seeing quick and dramatic results in Río Viejo and other sites.

Illegal gold mining, driven by record-high global prices ... Açaí is harvested sustainably from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Amapá. Açaí makes up a key segment of the bioeconomy.

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 ...

On Ngoma’s plot in Messock, the scars left by Mac Congo’s gold mining operations remain stark, even though the company vacated the site two years ago. The once-dense forest is gone ...

His single-propeller Cessna plane was loaded with more than 100 pounds of gold ... the Amazon. The haul, worth more than $4 million at today’s prices, had been pulled out of the rainforest ...