Thousands of indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon marched through the capital of Brazil to emphasize the crucial role the ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land to other uses.

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

By Aimee Gabay This is part three of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous ...

Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an ...

The protesters want their ancestral land rights, which are under threat from industrial farming in the Amazon, to be respected. Police used tear gas to clear demonstrators near Congress in Brasilia.

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

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand ...

Satellite data show that Indigenous territories in the Amazon — a region twice the size of India — have very low deforestation rates. The world’s largest tropical forest is a major carbon ...