BOGOTA, Colombia -- A two-month multinational police operation spanning nine Latin American countries resulted in 225 arrests for environmental crime and hundreds of new investigations into illegal ...

FILE - Men search for gold at an illegal gold mine in the Amazon jungle in the Itaituba area of Para state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Lucas Dumphreys, File) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A ...

The expansion of Chinese transnational organized crime across Latin America creates challenges that extend well beyond environmental harm.

In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special operations unit. Known as the Grupo de Especialização de Fiscalização (GEF), the unit operates ...

After a roughly 25-year hiatus, Missouri has reconvened an Environmental Crimes Task Force to investigate and prosecute ...

An environmental crimes task force will be reconvened to further ensure the prosecution of environmental violations.

An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the ...

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Early in my career when I was an officer with the Tasmanian Police Service, I saw people in my community in all different emotional states. That was the start of my understanding of what drives ...

BOGOTA, Colombia(AP) — A two-month multinational police operation spanning nine Latin American countries resulted in 225 arrests for environmental crime and hundreds of new investigations into illegal ...