SURUCUCU, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the ...

Meanwhile, the migrants make their way north, often going via the Amazon rainforest and crossing ... elections on both sides of the border. Brazil’s Justice Ministry said its measures followed ...

Several bands of Awá nomads—the easternmost isolated, or “uncontacted,” people in the Amazon—roam ... expanses of rain forest straddling Brazil’s western border with Peru, isolated ...

A federal court in Brazil ordered a rancher to pay more than $50 million for destroying part of the Amazon rainforest. Additionally, the court froze the assets of Dirceu Kruger to pay for the ...

Sergeant Vadim, 31, leads a recce of the forest looking for illegal ... the river separating French Guiana from Brazil On the French Guiana-Brazil border, gold mining is mainly carried out by ...

It’s Brazil’s second straight year of extreme ... In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the impact on rivers is shocking and experts are sounding the alarm on what this means for the region ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about ... 339,773 square miles) of forest cover lost across Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

SURUCUCU, Brazil - Brazilian authorities say they have almost squashed the illegal gold rush that drew thousands of wildcat miners to Yanomami indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest and caused a ...

Bearing six-liter bottles of water on their shoulders, members of Colombia's Indigenous Yagua community tramp along the dried ...

The rate of losses has accelerated as ... of the Amazon rainforest pulled in carbon dioxide equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of most of the nine countries that own or border the forest ...

the Amazon rainforest in most of its nine-country span; the border between Venezuela and Colombia; the Gran Chaco, the second-largest forest on the continent located in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil ...