The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires ...

“Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues of illicit economies often ...

Illegal gold mining has surged at thousands of sites in the Amazon rainforest, bringing environmental destruction and criminal violence to the region. Seizures of illegally mined gold have surged ...

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 ...

In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo. Fires are traditionally ...