By Shanna Hanbury Plans to build a railway that would slice South America from east to west, crossing part of the Amazon ...

By Fernanda WenzelKarla Mendes “We’re going to just keep mopping the ocean,” said Toya Manchineri, referring to Brazil’s ...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, at the inaugural forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice during the ...

A recent report by the nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) found that the operations of French retailer Casino Group in ...

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across ...

EXCLUSIVE: Area23a has acquired We Are Guardians, an urgent documentary on Indigenous defenders of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil produced by Fisher Stevens’ Highly Flammable, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run ...

"Gunmen or loggers will kill me for anything." Horrifying! All because they're defending their own land. An official trailer is available online for an inspiring documentary film titled We Are ...

Trucks line up amid protests that block Brazil's BR 230 national highway. (Coletivo audiovisual Da'uk Frank akay Munduruku/Reuters) Protests by indigenous tribes in the Amazon are blocking one of ...

Brazil is in talks with China to build a railway connecting the Chinese-built mega Chancay port in Peru to Brazilian regions, ...