Amazon gold mining reshapes land, draining moisture and raising temperatures. This creates harsh conditions that stop new ...

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

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

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

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

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

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

Tackling monoculture and deforestation in the Amazon, Cuíca is using Brazilian chestnuts to make a plant-based milk that ...

French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, famed for his immense body of work depicting wildlife, landscapes and people ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Small-scale—and usually illegal—mining ...