SAO PAULO (AP) — The medals were billed as the most sustainable ever produced. To match the festive spirit of South America’s first Olympics, officials from Brazil, the host country for the 2016 games ...

Following years of escalating violence by illicit mining operations in the Amazon, Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Safety has sent federal police, a joint military-civilian unit, environmental ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, but because the land has been depleted of its water. A common mining method ...

Robert Muggah is co-founder of the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute and SecDev Group. He is a fellow at Princeton University, Singularity University, Bosch Academy, the Chicago Council for Global ...

A surge in global gold prices has ignited a renewed mining rush within Brazil's Amazon rainforest, leading to an alarming acceleration of deforestation in protected areas and pushing mercury ...

FILE - A gold miner weighs his weekly production at an illegal mine in the Amazon jungle, in the Itaituba area of Para state, Brazil, Aug. 22, 2020. Nuggets are spirited out of the jungle by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A surge in global gold prices has ignited a renewed mining rush within Brazil's Amazon rainforest, leading to an alarming ...