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

A newly shared video is giving people an unusually clear look at the Mashco Piro, a rarely seen Indigenous community living in voluntary isolation deep in the Amazon rainforest. The footage has been ...

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

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 ...

What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

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

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...