From the air, the forests in Putumayo, Colombia’s southwestern Amazonian department, look scarred. Light brown lines snake ...

Peruvian authorities last month seized about four metric tons of mercury shipped from Mexico as authorities in the Amazon ...

The energy landscape is a shifting terrain, full of twists and turns, according to statistics in the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While some countries are backtracking on ...

Alexander von Bismarck, Executive Director at EIA US, explains: “The toxic flow of mercury to the illegal gold mines in the Amazon has been presented and accepted as inevitable for too many years, it ...

Peruvian customs have intercepted a record illegal mercury shipment, highlighting a smuggling network supporting illicit gold ...

The seizure appears to be the largest on record in the Amazon region of South America where illegal gold mining is widespread.

Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling ...

Three Colombian soldiers were killed and eight injured in a drone attack by ELN guerrillas on Independence Day in Norte de ...

In northeastern Colombia, rebels used a drone to attack a military patrol, killing three soldiers. The military blames the National Liberation Army, attributing the attack to their increasing use of ...

Colombia’s military says that rebels in northeastern Colombia used a drone to attack a military patrol in a rural area, killing three soldiers and injuring eight ...

Eighteen miners are in good health after a 12-hour-long rescue operation, Colombia's National Mining Agency says.