Mongabay Latam traveled along 38 kilometers (24 miles) of Peru’s Cenepa River, near the border with Ecuador, where illegal mining dredges run around the clock in search of gold, hemming in seven ...

Riding up the Quito River, trees claw their way to the edges of the riverbanks, forming an impenetrable forest wall lining the water. Then, suddenly, the world opens. The trees that walled us in have ...

The Indus River in Pakistan is being extensively disturbed by unregulated mining of the river’s bed (‘placer mining’) for gold. Numerous operations employing an estimated 1,200 heavy machines dig ...

KOLBINSKY, Russia -- From Krasnoyarsk to the village of Kolbinsky is roughly 167 kilometers, about 100 of which are on asphalt and then gravel. On the asphalt road, there is a lot of traffic, but as ...

Tailings from placer mining operations a century ago have left some streams in Interior Alaska less than ideal for fish. Miners caused the damage, and now miners are trying to fix it. And in the ...

Multiple mining dredges have been sighted operating illegally along the river dividing Suriname and French Guiana. Large-scale illegal gold mining is operating in plain sight on the Lawa River, a ...