As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

A city official in the remote Brazilian Amazon village of Envira told CNN that five members of the Kulina tribe are on the run after being accused of murdering, butchering and eating a farmer in a ...

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...

CATALAO, Brazil (AP) — Santa Claus braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

12, a teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact with people in a fishing village in the western Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazil’s Indigenous agency, Funai.

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights. (AP Video by Fernando Crispim.

Amazon has finally started selling directly in Brazil. The company launched its full-scale retail website in the country on Tuesday, selling over 120,000 products across 15 categories other than ...

Soares, a small village, is the closest to the ... the mineral in large barges through major Amazon Rivers to reach Mato Grosso State, Brazil's largest soybean producer. Divisions over the project ...

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