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 ...

Orlando Bloom is joining Ethan Hawke in “The Last of the Tribe,” a jungle thriller based on a novel by award-winning ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about ...

A multidisciplinary team of Brazilian researchers argues in an article published in the BMJ that health systems in the ...

The Indigenous practice of agroforestry is enjoying a renaissance as the agricultural sector aims to decarbonise without ...

The world's largest isolated tribe reappears in the Peruvian Amazon as illegal logging increases the risk of contact and ...

In light of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, voluntary commitments between companies, governments and civil society ...

Hundreds of Guarani Indigenous tribal members shut down a busy highway leading to Sao Paulo to protest a recently approved land bill. (May 31) ...