The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights on ...

Brandon Winkler felt a little uncomfortable, he said, when he was asked to lead worship on a Sunday morning in Brasilia, ...

Beneath Brazil's Amazon rainforest, one of the planet's largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ...

Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the Amazon ...

Journalist Alex Cuadros’s latest book, “When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon” tells ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

As a physician who has cared for many patients with this deadly disease in Africa, I marveled at how this one tree has saved ...

Brazil, which is having a banner start of the year with Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” nominated for three Academy Awards including best picture, has been named country of honor for the ...

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor ... over heavy metal contamination in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people. The civil lawsuit, filed Friday and disclosed this week ...