A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks
SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush…
Meet Johan Eliasch: Swedish billionaire who bought 400,000 acres of the Amazon forest to save it from deforestation and commercial destruction |
Johan Eliasch, a Swedish-British billionaire better known for building a global sportswear empire, made an unexpected move in…
‘[Our] coffee future is on the line’
A Coffee Watch report links the “massive deforestation” in Brazil to coffee farming, and experts warn that consumers…