In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest. In 2024, Survival International published ...

Mongabay followed the steps of Adriano Aguiar de Castro, who, according to authorities, jumped from one gold laundering ...

Though Lula has sought to be recognized as a champion of the world's tropical forests and Brazil's Indigenous peoples, he has ...

Some of that deforestation will likely happen in the Cerrado, the savanna biome next to the Amazon that serves as Brazil’s second-largest source of carbon storage. The Cerrado is governed by ...

New roads and riverways integrating the Brazilian Amazon and ports on the Pacific coast of South America are expected to be announced in 2025, reducing shipment costs to supply China. Brazil’s ...

BRASILIA - Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told Reuters ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

You don't need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon's most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire. As you approach his Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state ...

The Brazilian Amazon was ravaged by a staggering 140,000 fires last year -- many of them started to clear land for livestock or crops. A blaze in Capoto/Jarina wiped out crops and medicinal plants ...

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon during 2022, the last year of rightwing President Jair Bolsonaro in office, reached a surface akin to that of a country such as Lebanon, it was reported Friday.