Woodlark Island lies off the coast of Papua New Guinea and is home to dozens of unique species and a more than 2,000-year-old human culture. A recent court ruling has seen the land rights granted to ...

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds The growing extraction of rainforest resources is pushing the Amazon and similar ...

BRASILIA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Brazil is preparing a task force of armed forces, police and government agencies to soon launch an operation to expel illegal gold miners who invaded the Yanomami ...

Drug trafficking proceeds increasingly are getting laundered into illegal logging, ranching and gold mining in the Amazon in a development that is accelerating deforestation of the rain forest, ...

Isenberg's densely written text provides an overview of the industrialization of mining, logging, ranching and agriculture in California between 1850 and 1900 that, while well researched and ...