Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

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 ...

Record numbers of tourists are flocking to Rio de Janeiro, with many seeking local tours in the city's favelas.

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

Rhode Island–based photographer and world traveler George Salter has spent years capturing powerful street portraits across ...

India saw a 17% rise in the live events space in 2025, marking a boom in demand for experiences. This was led by Gen-Z and ...

In the first 10 months of 2025, international tourism in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, grew by 40%. Most of those tourists are Americans and Europeans traveling to see the world's largest tropical ...

In the Gran Chaco Region, which stretches into both Paraguay and Bolivia, the Ayoreo tribe shows what happens when outsiders ...

New images of the Mashco Piro community are clearer than any taken before, which were often blurry and grainy.

The Mashco Piro people are thought to be one of the largest uncontacted tribes, and their land is under threat from logging.

An American conservationist revealed astonishing, never-before-seen footage of a modern-day, uncontacted Amazonian tribe (via ...

Most respondents in almost all the surveyed countries believed that, a year into Trump’s second term, China is on the verge ...