"We are concerned." Researchers make alarming discovery after expedition through the Amazon River: 'Exposure at high levels ...

See All Key Ideas Decades of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Tapajós River Basin have left a heavy environmental legacy in the Brazilian Amazon: rivers contaminated with mercury ...

Illegal gold mining has surged at thousands of sites in the Amazon rainforest, bringing environmental destruction and criminal violence to the region. Seizures of illegally mined gold have surged ...

is at the heart of the country’s illegal gold-mining trade, so a friend suggested raising the money by having sex with miners, deep in the Amazon. “Going to the mines is a roll of the dice ...

Illegal gold miners will cease their operations when gold is no longer as valued as bitcoin, solving the destruction of ecosystems in the Amazon. Puerto Maldonado in Peru's Madre de Dios province ...

The project AURUM - Preventing Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon aims to strengthen institutional responses and capacities for preventing illegal mining and mercury trafficking, considering the ...

Stunning rare photographs published by Nasa have revealed the extent of gold mining - much of it thought to be illegal - in Peru's Amazon rainforest. The "rivers of gold" captured in the images ...

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

Years of illegal gold mining in Peru have taken a serious toll on the Amazon rainforest. No one knew the full extent of the damage until a research team from the Carnegie Institution of Science ...

In today’s uncertain economic conditions, gold mining stocks are leveraging rising gold prices and technological advancements ...

Their quest for gold devastated this section of the Amazon. But it’s now a symbol of hope. Silman is part of an international team studying how to restore forestland wiped out by mining.