SAO PAULO, July 28 (Reuters) - Legalizing mining on indigenous land and other protected areas in Brazil's Amazon rainforest would lead to thousands of square kilometers in new deforestation, according ...
A new land-use-change model suggests that the indirect impacts of mining operations in the Brazilian Amazon have been grossly underestimated. Impacts include not only deforestation but also loss of ...
An aerial view of dredges at an illegal gold mining area in the Amazon region of Peru. Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, ...