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.

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...

Carla Wisu took part in the meeting “Diálogos Fundo Brasil–ONU no Alto Rio Negro: Encontro de Saúde e Proteção de Povos ...

Never-before-seen high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has surfaced in a recent interview between an ...

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

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender BOGOTA, Colombia -- The trial ...

In Eunápolis, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, the clearing of Atlantic Forest for agriculture started centuries ...

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt drilling off the coast of the Amazon region. Despite strong opposition from environmental activists, ...

Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

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

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

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