The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...

In Brazil, two Indigenous Yanomami children drowned last week in a river where illegal gold miners operate. Yanomami leaders said the children, who were 7 and 5 years old, were sucked into a dredger ...

The more you get to know the Oregon State Park system, the better you like it. The big campgrounds on the Oregon coast often spring to mind first, but the network of state parks is quite diverse, as ...