Five Starlink internet devices were found in illegal mining sites in the Amazon during raids by Brazil’s environmental police on Tuesday, the environmental agency said. Starlink are small, easy ...

By Anna Gielas In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special ...

Banner image: Amapá state is home to six of the Amazon’s tallest known trees, including an 85-meter (279-foot) red angelim threatened by illegal gold mining.

Topline Poorly monitored and often illegal small-scale gold mines have released “devastating” levels of toxic mercury in one of the most protected and biodiverse areas of the Amazon rainforest ...

A shadowy economy of illicit gold mining on Indigenous lands in Brazil’s Amazon region relies on the right equipment and fuel access, an AP investigation found.

Members of Peru’s Mashco Piro tribe have been seen entering another Indigenous groups village in the Amazon as a logging ...

The Amazon is home to an incalculable array of plants and animals, but prospectors searching for gold use methods that devastate their habitats.

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.

Five Starlink internet devices were found in illegal mining sites in the Amazon during raids by Brazil’s environmental police on Tuesday, the environmental agency said.