{
  "id": 18700421,
  "title": "This riverside border town is fueling an illegal gold rush",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/this-riverside-border-town-is-fueling-an-illegal-gold-rush",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-07T11:08:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/this-riverside-border-town-is-fueling-an-illegal-gold-rush/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mongabay’s reporter Max Radwin went to Suriname’s Amazon to investigate the advance of illegal gold mining on Indigenous territories. Despite a government pledge to combat the activity, Indigenous Wayana communities are facing an influx of miners who cut down the forest and pollute rivers with mercury on the border of French Guiana. To learn more […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}