According to a new report, the Wagner Group has laundered some $2.5 billion to Russia since its full scale invasion of Ukraine last year, in an effort to support the war effort.
With the dollar weakening, people are turning to gold. Cue the acceleration of an Amazon gold rush, and with it, more challenges for Brazil, write Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis.
Tens of thousands of South African miners are suffering from an incurable lung disease. Now they hope to file a class-action suit to gain compensation.
When the price of gold skyrocketed, illegal miners flooded into the country's Amazon basin, eager to find even the tiniest bits of the precious metal. Trees and villagers have paid a price.