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

Alter do Chão in Brazil offers a serene Amazon river escape with stunning natural scenery.

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 ...

The Amazon River winds through the lush lowlands of eastern Ecuador, forming one of the most vital ecosystems on Earth. From ...

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

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

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.

Canadian naval architect firm Robert Allan Ltd. has completed the design of the RApide 3000-Z2 pushboat, an innovative and ...

Once destined for the priesthood, Edson Abreu dos Santos now shepherds volunteers to tackle Amazon’s fire crisis.

Fernando Araújo was riding his jet ski through Brazil's Rio Negro when he saw the small plane lose altitude and "crash into the river," he tells PEOPLE A man filmed the harrowing moment a small plane ...

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, ...