The Amazon region, Earth's most important ecosystem, is home to more than 400 Indigenous groups that use thousands of ...

Deep inside the Amazon, Indigenous leaders are fighting to preserve the rainforest More than 9 million acres of tropical ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises into concrete action, saying the gathering may be the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. At COP30 in Brazil, one thing stood out. Indigenous Amazonian peoples ...

BELÉM, BRAZIL–The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled to ...

For the first time in the history of UN climate conferences, COP30 will take place in a rainforest. President Lula da Silva has described this symbolic venue as a clear political message: the world ...

The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth, with many funders making financial commitments to conserve this crucial ...

Indigenous leaders representing more than 511 peoples from the Amazon Basin met in Brasília to discuss the solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis, ...

Deep in the Amazon, sound designer Eric Terena has been capturing the sounds of the rainforest while sitting silently beneath the dense, towering treetops with his recording equipment. He has noticed ...

The colonisation of Brazil, which began in the 16th century with the arrival of the Portuguese, caused profound transformations in the lives of Indigenous peoples. This included the spread of disease, ...

This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

At the end of February, Guaraní Indigenous people from what’s known as the Brazilian Amazon stopped a big Cargill project that would move more soybeans and cause more deforestation. Cargill, a ...