Across Brazil’s Lower Tapajós region, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and civil-society allies are mobilizing to ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...

Environmental and Indigenous groups accuse Cargill, the American grain-trading company, and other agribusiness giants of ...

The world's largest isolated tribe reappears in the Peruvian Amazon as illegal logging increases the risk of contact and disease ...

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

The Amazon River winds through the lush lowlands of eastern Ecuador, forming one of the most vital ecosystems on Earth. From above, its sinuous curves carve through dense rainforest, wetlands, and ...

SALEM TWP. — E-commerce and technology giant Amazon wants to discharge used water from its massive data center along Route 11 into the Susquehanna River. Amazon Data Services Inc. is asking the state ...

Fernando Araújo was riding his jet ski through Brazil's Rio Negro when he saw the small plane lose altitude and "crash into the river," he tells PEOPLE A man filmed the harrowing moment a small plane ...

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt drilling off the coast of the Amazon region. Despite strong opposition from environmental activists, ...

Having fishers as protagonists, a recent study disclosed unanswered details about the Amazon communities and fish species most affected by two Madeira River dams. The dams limited the natural flow of ...

Oiapoque is a sleepy town on the edge of the Amazon basin in Brazil’s northernmost tip. On weekdays fishermen haul their catch to the local market and indigenous people stream in from the rainforest ...