SEATTLE - Recent reports are signaling that Brazil's biggest and best-organized criminal organization known as Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), or First Capital Command, continues to take ...

The Nez Perce Tribe accused the U.S. Forest Service on Monday of violating its treaty rights by approving a giant, open-pit ...

As a result, deforestation linked to garimpos in the Amazon plummeted by 30% compared ... lost 13,000 hectares (32,123 acres) of forest to illegal gold mining in 2023, according to a report ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues ...

A company called Perpetua Resources – formerly known as Midas Gold – seeks to resume mining gold, silver and the chemical ...

Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight ...

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a final record of decision approving the Stibnite Gold Mine Project in Central Idaho’s ...