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

Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods ...

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.

In the first 10 months of 2025, international tourism in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, grew by 40%. Most of those tourists ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

The road to hell is paved. Whenever a dirt track in Brazil’s Amazon jungle is overlaid with asphalt, it takes little time for the emerald rainforest surrounding it to disappear in a suffocating plume ...

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender. The rare case, which is due ...

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 ...

Brazil's worst ever plane crash last Tuesday Family members of the victims of last week's crash plan to hold protests SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters)-- Nearly half of all flights in Brazil were delayed or ...

"Ethical and scientific." Officials make game-changing announcement impacting future of the Amazon: 'It is a life-or-death decision' first appeared on The Cool Down.

We canoed the Rio Negro and Solimões to observe wildlife from the water during the day and at night, hiking trails and ...

With Eckerd College’s Global Education program, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil ...