Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Amazon rainforest deforestation is reshaping the planet’s climate. It affects rainfall, raises global temperatures, and ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining - not just because the soil is damaged from toxic metals ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...

The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern against people who speak out against" human rights abuses ...

Potassium Mining Project in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest Divides Indigenous Tribe LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out ... Potash Corp., a Toronto-based mining company listed in the New ...