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LIMA, Peru, July 23, 2021 (ENS) – Illegal gold mining is a widespread problem in the southern Peruvian Amazon; in the Madre de Dios region it has caused both river contamination and extensive deforestation. […]

QUITO, Ecuador, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – An oil spill has contaminated a protected area of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon and polluted the Coca River that supplies water to Indigenous communities, says Ecuador’s environment ministry. […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 16, 2024 (ENS) – At least two vessels were involved in an incident that is spilling gobs of black crude oil across a widening area of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of South America. Emanating from a capsized barge off Tobago’s southwest coast, the oil has fouled some of the pristine beaches that attract so many tourists to the tropical island, the country’s Coast Guard has confirmed. […]