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

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.

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

Authorities from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname conducted a first-ever joint operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Supported by Interpol and other organizations, the ...

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

In the first 10 months of 2025, international tourism in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, grew by 40%. Most of those tourists are Americans and Europeans traveling to see the world's largest tropical ...

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt drilling off the coast of the Amazon region. Despite strong opposition from environmental activists, ...

Deep in the Amazon, two men hold the key to protecting over 240,000 hectares of untouched rainforest. As powerful interests move in and the government retreats, their ...

Brazil's top court struck down a law on Thursday that limits Indigenous people's rights to their ancestral lands, the latest twist in a long legal battle over native territory. Land rights for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she was just 16, Juma Xipaia of Brazil’s Indigenous Xipaya people gave an interview in which she foresaw a challenging ...

When she was just 16, Juma Xipaia of Brazil’s Indigenous Xipaya people gave an interview in which she foresaw a challenging destiny for herself. “My future? Fighting for the Indigenous cause,” she ...

Across the Amazon, an exodus is unfolding. Indigenous women are being pushed from their ancestral lands by a surge of environmental crime and climate-driven collapse. As illegal mining, logging and ...