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

In the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the largest in Brazil, leaders believe in their youths’ skills to maintain their ancestors’ ...

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 ...

Discover the engineering marvels behind the world’s biggest mining machines. The Bagger 293 stands 96 meters tall, weighs ...

Scientists have identified more than two dozen previouslyunknown fish species in Peru and the Amazon Basin, uncovering a ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination in the ...

The leader said he will ask the Peruvian government to declare a state of emergency in the area to allow the eviction of illegal miners.

Brazil stands at a crucial moment in history as the host of the 30th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

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.

In Bolivia, the killing of an Indigenous leader and the ensuing detention of another Indigenous man for being allegedly ...