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 ...

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

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

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

Scientists seek to understand the factors that have allowed people in Brazil to reach their 100th or even 110th birthdays despite facing adversities.

Aisling Fuller is from Renmore and Valter Romulo from Rio de Janeiro who only arrived in The City of The Tribes two years ago ...

Hundreds of Guarani Indigenous tribal members shut down a busy highway leading to Sao Paulo to protest a recently approved land bill. (May 31) ...

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

Some places on Earth are so remote, dangerous, mysterious, or restricted that most people would never set foot there. In this video we explore twenty locations that humans rarely dare to visit, ...

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 ...

Seven snapshots reveal how climate rollbacks altered the trajectory of U.S. energy, environmental protection, and economic security.