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.

A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.

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

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

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 ...

Majorities in the six countries surveyed believe in God, in life after death, and that spells, curses or other magic can ...

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

The world’s most biodiverse nation, Brazil, has published its UN plan for halting and reversing nature decline by the end of this decade.

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