A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous organizations.

A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...

Rihanna fans might know the musician for hits such as “Umbrella” and “Diamonds." But it is the billionaire’s philanthropy ...

Warfare” opens this weekend in theaters, and it’s the latest film to feature an Indigenous actor in a breakout mainstream ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

The involvement of Munduruku people in illegal mining inside the Munduruku Indigenous Territory made Brazil’s efforts to stop ...

One unusual characteristic of Latin American nations is their proclivity to adopt new constitutions that reflect periodic ...

Indigenous people gathered in Brasilia, Brazil for the annual Free Earth camp to demand the government pay more attention to ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

Thousands of Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon marched through the capital of Brazil. Their demonstration aimed to remind ...

Robert Ten Eyck’s “Skin Side Up,” Sebastian McKinnon’s “The Stolen Child” and Richard Raaphorst’s “Children of the Moor” look ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil's ...