Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.

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But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about ...

In 2024, the world lost almost 6.7 million hectares (16.5 million acres) of primary tropical forest, the fastest rate ever ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, ...

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

What these men had in common, according to those who knew them, is that they spoke out against drug cartels engaged in ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

A new study shows that even the most remote parts of the Amazon may not be safe from the impacts of the climate crisis.

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