The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

In some Amazon rivers in Brazil, cases of diseases related to inadequate basic sanitation, such as malaria and acute diarrhea ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations, ...

Brazilian drug gangs are bringing in far more money from fuel and other products than from cocaine trafficking, an expansion ...

Brazil's president is amping up pressure for a major oil project to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon River, despite ...

"As my grandpa used to say: the best accessory is gold, the best car is a Toyota, and the best investment is illegal gold mining," reads a post from one of the social media accounts that promote ...

Probes started after complaints were made about the degrading exploitation of labor and the use of cyanide in the illegal ...

One Brazilian organization USAID has supported is the Amazon-based Roraima Indigenous Council ... In a region vulnerable to ...

Dredge on the Purité River between Brazil and Colombia, bordering Amacayacu National Park. Credit: Amazon Regional Alliance ...

Gold – often dubbed the world’s oldest ... serves as a warning for what could happen to parts of Brazil’s Amazon if drug trafficking and associated criminal activity goes unchecked.