Two senior police officers in Brazil were arrested for allegedly assisting illegal gold mining by accepting bribes for ...

Two senior police officers were arrested in Brazil on suspicion that they took bribes and provided security for illegal gold mining activity in the Amazon, according to a court document seen by ...

In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a ...

Last year, she helped win passage of a referendum in Ecuador to block oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest’s Yasuní Park ...

The rest of the country is mostly made up of dense rainforest and is relatively unpopulated outside of small villages, ...

There have been three major sources of Brazilian immigrants in the twentieth century: the Northeast, where emigration offers ...

Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Biden blocks new coal mining at federal hubThe Biden administration ...

A Canadian company mining a key fertilizer for grain crops in Brazil’s Amazon region is set to have its shares traded in the ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed to preserve the ...

Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international ...

Lula also reestablished the Amazon Fund, an international pool of money used to support conservation efforts in the ...

Belem, a bustling metropolitan area of 2.5 million people near the mouth of the Amazon River, is preparing to host COP30 next ...