The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Ancient whale-bone harpoons found in Brazil reveal Indigenous whale hunting 5,000 years ago, long before the use of metal tools.

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado, defending a biodiversity-rich savanna increasingly threatened by climate change.

Brazil's top court struck down a law on Thursday that limits Indigenous people's rights to their ancestral lands, the latest twist in a long legal battle over native territory. Land rights for ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil set out to host this year’s United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are ...