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The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Felipe Esparza 12 Sep 2026
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Can mining gold be sustainable?

Felipe Esparza 11 Sep 2026

Riverside families in the Amazon change meals as mercury poisons staple fish

Karla Mendes 8 Sep 2026

In Peru, mercury leaves a toxic footprint on those who depend on a river

Elizabeth Salazar Vega 8 Sep 2026

Mercury threatens over 160 communities in Bolivia’s Beni River basin

Iván Paredes Tamayo 8 Sep 2026

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Daniela Quintero Díaz 8 Sep 2026
An illegal gold mine in Nagan Raya, Aceh.

Illegal gold mining continues in Indonesia’s Aceh despite government crackdown pledge

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Sep 2026
A Yanomami Indigenous child plays among the wreckage of a Brazilian Air Force aircraft at the Surucucu airport. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Scientists use mining data to build malaria alert system in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Sep 2026
A Sumatran orangutan.

Gold miners breach a crucial refuge for rescued Sumatran orangutans

Junaidi Hanafiah 31 Aug 2026
Gold extraction site

Brazil’s mining agency under fire over corruption and omission probes

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Aug 2026

Nicaragua’s gold boom is now encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous land

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2026

The global gold rush consuming the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 30 Jul 2026
A mine site at Samreboi, Western Region, Ghana in 2022. Image courtesy of Erastus Asare Donkor

Ghana’s High Court sentences politician to 20 years in illegal mining case

Mabel Adorkor Annang 24 Jul 2026

Illegal miners adapt their strategies in Yanomami Amazon territory

Rubens Valente 17 Jun 2026
Oxysternon festivum, the most common dung beetle found in the study. Image by Tom Murray via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

David Brown 4 Jun 2026
Health workers accompany a child suspected of having Ebola at the disease treatment center in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on September 9, 2018. For representation only. Image by Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, Associated Press.

‘People kept dying’: Interview with Dr. Macky Mbavugha on DRC’s latest Ebola outbreak

Elodie Toto 29 May 2026
Illegal sand and gold mining

Indonesia seizes mercury shipment bound for illegal mines in the Philippines

Anggita Raissa 26 May 2026
The site of an illegal gold mine in Sijunjung Regency where a landslide occurred, killing nine people.

Nine killed at illegal mine in latest Sumatra landslide tragedy as gold surge continues

Novia Harlina 21 May 2026
Fisherman from the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory with his catch from the Tapajós River. Image courtesy of Luis Ushirobira/InfoAmazonia.

Artisanal mines in Brazil a front for gold laundering, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Venezuela tells UN court that mineral-rich part of Guyana was ‘fraudulently’ taken in colonial era

Associated Press 6 May 2026
Fishers collect their nets on the Sesan River, just a few hundred meters from the O’Ta Bouk-Sesan confluence. Fishers who use the O’Ta Bouk told Mongabay that their catches have declined significantly over the past three years. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Cambodia tested waters amid pollution claims; months later, still no public results

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 4 May 2026
Indigenous protests in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 7. Image courtesy of Anderson Barbosa/Amazon Watch.

Brazilian state greenlights deforestation for contested open-pit gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2026

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Constance Malleret 24 Apr 2026
Pa Haw, father of Saw Si Paw, takes to the Salween River each morning to inspect their nets for fish, despite heavy metal contamination linked to mining sites upstream. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

Gerald Flynn 20 Apr 2026
Pista Velha mining site in the Baú Indigenous Territory captured during an overflight on July 19, 2025. Image courtesy of the Xingu+ Network.

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

Shanna Hanbury 15 Apr 2026
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon in 2011. Photo by Rhett Butler.

The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)

Carlos Nobre, Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabo 15 Apr 2026

Landmark win for Thai villagers, but gold mine appeal delays justice

Mongabay.com 14 Apr 2026

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2026

In Brazil’s capital, Indigenous leaders rally as land disputes and mining pressures grow

Associated Press 7 Apr 2026

Thai court rules gold mine liable, but villagers face uncertain justice

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Apr 2026
Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Occupation of Funai’s Altamira branch. Image courtesy of the Medio Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement.

Indigenous groups demand halt to Belo Sun Amazon gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026

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