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Mercury rising: Why Bolivia remains South America’s hub for the toxic trade

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022

Shady contracts, backdoor deals spur illegal gold mining in Bolivian Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022
A miner panning for gold in a gold-bearing basin using mercury

Chinese companies criticized for mercury pollution in Cameroon

Christophe Nyemeck Beat 5 Sep 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines

Brazil’s Amazon gold mining to be “stimulated” by Bolsonaro’s decree (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Feb 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

Illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon threatens Indigenous communities

Carol Sánchez 24 Aug 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

Madagascar shuts down ‘illegal’ gold mine but activists remain in legal limbo

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: Study

Taran Volckhausen 4 Aug 2020

Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 1 Jul 2020
Shark fins for sale in Hong Kong. Image provided by Demian Chapman.

Mercury with that? Shark fins served with illegal doses of heavy metals

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jun 2020

A third of Peru’s La Pampa forest cleared for illegal mining ponds, study finds

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Apr 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Illegal gold rush causing ‘irreversible damage’ to rivers in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 20 Dec 2019

Toxic river: Mining, mercury and murder continue to plague Colombia’s Atrato

Frederick Gillingham, Melisa Valenzuela 10 Oct 2019
image by Cristóbal von Rothkirch from the book Cariba Malo.

Gold, wood, religion: Threats to Colombia’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 3 Jun 2019

Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes

Ramiro Escobar 9 May 2019

Illegal online sales driving mercury pollution crisis in Indonesia

Luh De Suriyani, Nurdin Tubaka 8 Apr 2019

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Industrial fishing in the Galapagos, fracking Colombian cloud forests, whale sharks in Peru

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2018

On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2018

Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining

Antonio José Paz Cardona 1 Aug 2018

Four regions in Peru exposed to mercury contamination

Yvette Sierra Praeli 8 May 2018

Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Apr 2018

Ire and ore: Demands grow for clarity around Cambodian gold mine

Rod Harbinson 3 Apr 2018

Impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in Peru and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2017

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