FILE - An illegal mining camp, sits along the Quito River, the Atrato River's main tributary, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) BOGOTA, Colombia ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Atrato River and its tributaries are among the most polluted in Colombia. Semi-industrialized mining operations with illegal excavators and ...

Fundamental human rights are now recognised across much of the world. Humans, however, cannot exist without the natural world. So should we also award rights to environmental entities? The idea has ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Decades of internal conflict have fueled an unprecedented surge in illegal mining in Colombia’s Choco region, decimating the Atrato River basin and ...

PAIMADO – Sediment and pebbles are all that’s left on the earth around much of Bernardino Mosquera’s small riverside community in northwest Colombia’s Choco region. Just a year ago, healthy shrubs and ...

Thousands of miles and an ocean away from home, Maryury Mosquera Palacios brimmed with passion as she described what it means to be a guardian of the Atrato River in Colombia's Chocó bioregion. "The ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PAIMADO, Colombia (AP) — Sediment and ...