Two senior police officers in Brazil were arrested for allegedly assisting illegal gold mining by accepting bribes for ...

Two senior police officers were arrested in Brazil on suspicion that they took bribes and provided security for illegal gold mining activity in the Amazon, according to a court document seen by ...

But the desert is under increased pressure from mining for the metals ... attention and donor funding has focused on stemming ...

This announcement comes at a time when roughly 64% of the world's tropical rainforest has been destroyed or degraded, and ...

LONDON — Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm ...

Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that ... has the second-most illegal mining in Brazil, according to ...

The first initiative is the Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ Resilience to Climate Change in Colombia program, funded through a ...

BRASILIA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest ... most illegal mining in Brazil, according ...

The <a href=" States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new program expanding their commitment to protect Indigenous People who defend environmental and human rights in the ...

Dutch researcher and tree expert Hans ter Steege is the founder of the Amazon Tree Diversity Network, which brings together ...

(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) MANAUS, Brazil — Joe Biden on Sunday became the first sitting American president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest, as the incoming Trump administration seems ...