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 ...

Slowing deforestation in Brazil and pledges to ban oil drilling in Colombia offer slivers of hope for the Amazon.

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the southeastern Colombian department of Vaupés, members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community have maintained a healthy territory through ...

Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, the Kichwa people of Pakayaku are quiet yet fierce protectors of the world. According to Mongabay, their mission is to protect their ancestral land from mining, ...

Raoni warns against highways, rail projects and river shipping Leader urges Lula to protect Indigenous lands under law COP30 highlights Indigenous calls for a say in forest management BELEM, Brazil, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very little sense of what he ...

In theory, stopping the deforestation of the Amazon is among the cheapest ways of curbing global warming. Brazil’s “Legal Amazon” region, which encompasses nine states and 60% of the entire forest ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the ...