The US State Department warns Americans not to travel to these 21 countries due to risks like terrorism, kidnapping, 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 ...

A multidisciplinary team of Brazilian researchers argues in an article published in the BMJ that health systems in the ...

A researcher’s quest to preserve tracts of the Amazon basin leads him into wild adventure.

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp. In the Amazon, gold mining is a thriving business, ...

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

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

Once destined for the priesthood, Edson Abreu dos Santos now shepherds volunteers to tackle Amazon’s fire crisis.

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

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.

Experts warn the tribe faces life-threatening risks from forced contact, illegal logging, and drug trafficking, urging the Peruvian government to expand protections.