Illegal mining reaches Venezuela's famed Angel Falls, threatens treasured national park
Deep in the Amazon, Canaima National Park in Venezuela is a green wonderland. Home to Angel Falls, the tallest uninterrupted ...
Gold Mining Unleashes a Carbon Time Bomb in the Amazon
Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...
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Potassium mining project in Brazil's Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
Soares, a small village, is the closest to the planned mining site while nearby Urucurituba ... the mineral in large barges through major Amazon Rivers to reach Mato Grosso State, Brazil's ...
Two years of gold mining devastates Peruvian peatlands, outpacing damage of the last 30 years
New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...
Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are ...