Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government ...

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Miguel Guimaraes, a Shipibo-Konibo leader, has spent his life protesting palm oil plantations and other agribusiness ventures ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area in the Amazon — marking a major ...