The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...

Across southern Venezuela, Indigenous communities have been drawn into mining for gold as their traditional way of life has been disturbed and they lack other economic opportunities. Armed groups and ...

Planet China: Seventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. Chinese miners are illegally extracting Congolese gold on a vast ...