The Maroni River flows through tropical rainforest along the border of Suriname and Guyana. Its basin was relatively unaltered until the 1990s. In the past 25 years, major deforestation, mostly by ...

It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing ...

Ten years after an international treaty to ban mercury, the toxic metal continues to poison. The reason might have to do with your wedding ring. Gold miners working at a small mine owned by Jeovane de ...