President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration reduced the expansion of illegal gold mining in the BrazilianAmazon, but miners keep finding new sites. In 15 conservation units ...
Brazil's Amazon has been experiencing a surge in violence as criminal gangs expand their presence in over a third of municipalities in the country's rainforest region, according to a report by the ...
Climate scientists have warned that re-paving the road could trigger a climate crisis chain reaction with severe irreversible impacts on the Amazon, Brazil and the entire planet. Speaking to ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil's Amazon to ...