Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...

The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to hazardous ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

The Amazon Rainforest helps regulate the Earth's weather patterns, and its destruction will have global implications. (Getty) Temperature changes predicted over the next four years could be enough to ...

After hitting a record high in 2024, loss of primary tropical forest dropped by over a third last year, but the world remains way off track for a 2030 goal to halt deforestation ...

Researchers warn that fires fuelled by climate change are a dangerous new normal and could reverse gains made in tackling ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in ...