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

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.

In the summer of 2023, more than 19,000 people were forced to evacuate as wildfires swept through Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Emergency alerts were issued in French and ...

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...

In January 2023, the Brazilian government declared a public health emergency in Yanomami Land, the largest Indigenous territory in the country. Since ...

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

An interview with Virgilio Viana on protecting the Amazon, centering local communities and what it will take to keep the ...

The annual conference is the largest international climate summit in the world, where delegates from almost every country ...

Health disparities between Afro-Brazilians and their white peers are most severe in midlife, not old age. Growing up under authoritarian rule put these groups at a greater disadvantage than older ...

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