Brazil announced on Friday the suspension of dredging operations on a major Amazon tributary, after Indigenous communities ...

Brazil's government has suspended Amazon river dredging operations on the Tapajos tributary following sustained protests from Indigenous communities.

Ramon Pucha shows seeds and plant materials he has collected from the forest near his family farm in Alto Ila, in Ecuador's ...

Seeing illegal gold mines despoil remote Ecuadorian forests helped me to understand what happened to Pittsburgh — and to appreciate what we still have.

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 ...

A s manatee populations in South Florida are threatened by the weight of human impacts, from motorboat strikes to ...

This rare freshwater mammal has fascinated scientists, photographers, and local communities for centuries. Its striking color raises an obvious question: why is this dolphin pink?

You no longer need a plane ticket to Brazil and a trek through the rainforest to land one of the world’s most elusive predators. The Arapaima, a prehistoric giant once exclusive to the Amazon River, ...

The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large reservoirs, which ...

For the past five years or so, the bar’s candy-hued trucker hats — bearing its name and an illustration of the Manhattan ...

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