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.

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

Murata created an eight-part documentary series, “A Story Told from the Shoulders of Another Rainforest Culture,” focusing on ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

In the first 10 months of 2025, international tourism in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, grew by 40%. Most of those tourists ...

Once destined for the priesthood, Edson Abreu dos Santos now shepherds volunteers to tackle Amazon’s fire crisis.

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January 2026 was meant to be when the government of the Brazilian state of Pará would roll out a new system, initially ...

The Mashco Piro people are thought to be one of the largest uncontacted tribes, and their land is under threat from logging.

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are still learning new things about it every year, and what’s already known is ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest against deforestation. Many of the trees cut down or ...