On the set of I’m Still Here (2024), the acclaimed Brazilian film by Walter Salles Jr., supporting actress Angela Ribeiro was ...

Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.

In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the death of Sister Stang, who is considered by many as a "Martyr of the Amazon," a ...

The world’s largest agricultural boom is transforming a vast savanna of hidden wonders. Here’s what happens when progress ...

Historic Indigenous leaders still fell. Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, who led his Xingu people for five decades. Paulinho Paiakan, of the Kayapó. Artist and healer Vovó Bernaldina… from the Macuxi tribe ...

Deep below the surface of a river in northern Brazil, a “shy” creature tucked its “armored” body into a rocky crevice. Divers ...

Discover the countries with the most 'living languages' – at number one is a nation that speaks more than 800 different dialects ...

Brazil's president this week amped up pressure for a major oil project to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon River, despite ...

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the Indigenous people who live there ...

An international team of scientists has tentatively found some of the earliest indications of alcoholic drink production in the Patos Lagoon region of Brazil. State-of-the-art analysis of pottery ...

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...