Prosecution over death of Quinto Inuma Alvarado seen as test of ability to curb attacks on environmental defenders ...

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

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

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

No one can evade death forever, but some people are mysteriously good at it. While the average human life lasts about seven ...

The Leonardo DiCaprio-produced film is one of 15 documentaries shortlisted at the Oscars.

"The question before us is not whether protest belongs in church, but whether the church still belongs to the Gospel it ...

While Oregon became a state in 1859, Latines have been part of the region for more than 150 years. Arriving mostly from ...

Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures ...

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.

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 ...