Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host a regional summit next week with planetary stakes, as leaders of the countries that share the Amazon seek a roadmap to save the world's biggest rainforest.The meeting of the eight-nation Amazon...

In a remote pocket of the Brazilian Amazon under siege from illegal fishermen, poachers, loggers and drug traffickers, Indigenous people have taken it upon themselves to defend the land and its resources.With bows, arrows and spears, young men of the...

Deep in the Amazon, an experiment unfolds that may allow a peek into the future to see what will happen to the world's largest rainforest when carbon dioxide levels rise.It is a simulation to see how the lungs of the world will endure global warming....

Her grandfather defended native lands in the Brazilian Amazon with bows and arrows. Today, the weapon of choice for Txai Surui and many young Indigenous activists like her is technology.The 26-year-old Brazilian is one of the stars of Web Summit Rio,...

They call themselves "the multicolored people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.But the feathered crowns and animal tooth neckla...

There has been noticeably less deforestation in areas of Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where indigenous peoples have secure land rights than in comparable regions where land tenure is weak or nonexistent.PNAS Nexus published a paper revealing t...

In a hospital in Brazil's Amazon, half a dozen Yanomami children are dozing in blue hammocks.Some are suffering from pneumonia, others from malaria. Some even have snake bites. All of them are underfed.Cases of malnutrition and malaria in the region...

By AFPAmazon announced Wednesday it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce, citing "the uncertain economy" and the fact that the online retail giant had "hired rapidly" during the pandemic."Between the reductions we made in November and th...

Representing her community at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), which took place on November 6-19 in Sharm El-Sheikh, South Sinai, Vanda Witoto was one of several indigenous peopl...

Upon his arrival at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Brazilian President Lula di Silva offered to host the UN climate change conference in 2025 in the Amazon, a move that has been seen as “important” by so...

By AFPFrench President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday backed a proposal by Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to hold a 2025 United Nations climate conference in the Amazon rainforest."I fervently hope that we can have a COP in the Amaz...

Waorani, aka Waos, are indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforests of eastern Ecuador. In May 2019, the ethnicity in Pastaza won a legal case against the Ecuadorian government’s plan to extract oil over 0.5 million acres of their land in the...