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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as “human shields” in the Amazon.

miners place children in front of the dredges they use to extract the gold from the river. Government officials were not immediately available to comment on the complaint. There have been several ...

Scientists discovered new fish species. These include a blob-headed catfish, a tiny pipehorse, and three pacu species.

The river has mystical meaning for ... Climate change, mining, and logging are all putting strain on the Amazon, which may interfere with the natural geothermal system that powers Shanay-Timpishka.

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River. In the video, the dolphin ...