And yet, despite the government’s actions, environmental protections and Indigenous rights are still under threat. Lula is ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Dutch researcher and tree expert Hans ter Steege is the founder of the Amazon Tree Diversity Network, which brings together ...

President Joe Biden pledged new financial help to protect the Amazon, the planet’s largest tropical rainforest, during a visit to Brazil on Sunday.