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

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 rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

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

In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest ...

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

The Indigenous practice of agroforestry is enjoying a renaissance as the agricultural industry looks to decarbonise without ...

By Shanna Hanbury Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing ...

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

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

Conservationist and author Paul Rosolie is releasing video of a pre-stone age uncontacted tribe in the Amazon captured by he ...