SAO PAULO (AP) — The medals were billed as the most sustainable ever produced. To match the festive spirit of South America’s first Olympics, officials from Brazil, the host country for the 2016 games ...

Robert Muggah is co-founder of the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute and SecDev Group. He is a fellow at Princeton University, Singularity University, Bosch Academy, the Chicago Council for Global ...

As gold prices have skyrocketed, a boom in mining across the Amazon Basin has flourished, leaving a deep environmental footprint. Illegal mining has become one of the main drivers of deforestation in ...

Following years of escalating violence by illicit mining operations in the Amazon, Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Safety has sent federal police, a joint military-civilian unit, environmental ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil's Amazon to the ...

Río Huepetuhe gold mine in Peru in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler The extent of gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has surged 400 percent since 1999 due to rocketing gold prices, ...

New film documents a shadow world: the illegal gold mines of the Peruvian Amazon. When Sarah duPont first visited the Peruvian Amazon rainforest in the summer of 1999, it was a different place than it ...

To match the festive spirit of South America's first Olympics, officials from Brazil, the host country for the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro, boasted that the medals hung around the necks of athletes ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The medals were billed as the most sustainable ever produced. FILE - A gold miner weighs his weekly production at an illegal mine in the Amazon jungle, in the Itaituba area of Para ...

An investigation by the Associated Press has found that a Sao Paulo-based company Marsam, known for its commitment to the responsible sourcing of precious metals, processes gold for, and shared ...