SAO PAULO (AP) - The medals were billed as the most sustainable ever produced. To match the festive spirit of South America's first Olympics, officials from Brazil, the host country for the 2016 games ...

Enforcement against illegal gold mines in the Brazilian Amazon ramped up in 2023, but the contamination from the mercury used in mining will likely be felt for generations to come. According to a ...

(Reuters) – Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The medals were billed as the most sustainable ever produced. FILE - A gold miner weighs his weekly production at an illegal mine in the Amazon jungle, in the Itaituba area of Para ...

(Reuters) - Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil's indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive ...