Five months after a major operation by federal forces, illegal mining dredges are back on the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon. The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of ...

By Kevin Damasio Mariazinha Baré spent her childhood bathing and playing in the Upper Negro River. Born and raised on the ...

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of ...

If you follow the Malinowski River, you eventually arrive at the informal and illegal mining operations that have devastated this part of the Amazon. The road that connects the Pacific and the ...

Five months after Brazilian authorities launched a large-scale crackdown on illegal gold mining along the Amazon's Madeira ...

By Sarah Brown The presence of the Balbina hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon led to the local extinction of several ...

The Madre de Dios River is a headwater tributary of the Amazon River shared by Peru and Bolivia. As the mining operations expanded, so did the ecological devastation. The miners chopped down huge ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state ... with the Catete River carrying mine ...