Researchers suggest that recycling gold could dramatically reduce harmful emissions, along with other solutions such as ...

The PCC is taking over illegal gold mining in the Amazon and corrupting Indigenous cultures in a spiral of violence in some ...

The Amazon rainforest, vital for global climate regulation and biodiversity, faces escalating threats from deforestation, ...

Gold is difficult to trace, especially once metal from different sources has been melted together. Investigators say this is ...

Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally ...

The Brazilian National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Funai) says that their population has more than doubled since the early 1990s. Altair Algayer, a government agent with Funai, had reportedly ...

In 15 conservation units, illegal gold miners destroyed 330 hectares (815 acres) — an area close to the size of Central Park ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence ...

“It’s enormously sad and shocking for those of us who do reporting in the Amazon. This place can be ... who had invaded their land and were mining their diamonds. Using arrows, clubs, guns ...

Across various regions of the Brazilian Amazon, traditional Indigenous, riverside, Quilombola, and rubber-tapper communities ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30 next year, its government is embarking on a plan at odds with its climate aims ...

STORY: Scientists in Brazil are using forensic technology to analyze what's being called “the DNA of Brazilian gold” as the ...