SAO PAULO — 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 in ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged landscape becomes visible with its gaping wounds carved by illegal gold mining.

Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon. Its extraction and trade is not only fueling corruption, money laundering and criminal violence ...

Like with any other product, solution or initiative Amazon undertakes, customer obsession drives the company's sustainability strategy. "Sustainability is an important issue for our customers around ...

SAO PAULO, July 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian police allege an Italian refiner purchased gold from a trader sourcing it illegally in the Amazon rainforest region, according to police documents, and ...

Growing up in a Caribbean household taught me all about the importance of jewelry. My mother passed down all the jewelry she received from her family to me, and I always enjoy hearing her childhood ...