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.

On Nov. 7 in Brazil, Indigenous people from the Tupinambá and other ethnic groups occupied the Tapajós River with small boats for several hours, halting barges carrying soybeans and other commodities ...

Never-before-seen high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has surfaced in a recent interview between an ...

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

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

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil set out to host this year's United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are ...

Protecting Indigenous territories in areas of the Amazon rainforest with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the number of cases of several diseases (including malaria and respiratory ...

Indigenous-held Amazon forest absorbs more CO2 than it emits Other Amazon areas have become a source of planet-heating gases Protecting land from forest loss could avoid tipping point RIO DE ...

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 ...

Brazil is pushing the Tapajós River waterway as one of the main Amazon shipping corridors and preparing it for privatization, which will enable regular dredging and maintenance to improve its capacity ...