Scientists say recent research has reinforced understanding of the region's past not as a human desert, but rather as a ...

As environmental crimes threaten Indigenous communities in the Amazon, their struggles are ignored by a humanitarian system ...

A new study has found that 60% of the Amazon remains hidden. It suggests the region has unknown tribes and species we are yet ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

The Indigenous community’s relationship with Catholic institutions has been central to Sateré-Mawé resistance to ...

Healthy forests in protected Indigenous territories could help reduce the risk of certain illnesses for humans, a new study shows. Different factors influence how effective Indigenous territories are ...

Scientists found that a small amount of ancient Amazon dark earth soil can help trees grow faster in damaged land.

NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador (AP) — Standing beside a stream stained dark with oil in Ecuador’s northern Amazon, an Indigenous woman shook her head in disbelief as she stared at the oily sheen drifting across ...

Protecting Indigenous territories in areas of the Amazon rainforest with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the number of cases of several diseases (including malaria and respiratory ...

Indigenous people in Brazil have marched in the capital, Brasilia, to protest what they say are violations of their land rights.