At COP30 in Brazil, one thing stood out. Indigenous Amazonian peoples and movements drove the only meaningful progress that ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3 billion hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, rock ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

ITAITUBA, Brazil, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Fifty Munduruku warriors hack their way with machetes through the undergrowth of the Amazon rainforest, marking the borders of their ancestral lands to finish a ...

State-run energy firm Petrobras faces resistance from Indigenous groups for its goal to open Brazil's northern coast to oil drilling. An environmental agency denied Petrobras a license for exploratory ...

COP30, the dark plots of "green capitalism," the colonization of carbon credits, the false technocratic solutions to the climate crisis, the fight for the ...

Mongabay interviewed Kari Guajajara, a lawyer and the first Indigenous person to obtain a law degree in Brazil’s state of Maranhão, to hear her take on some of the latest and biggest events affecting ...

By Alexandre de Santi The Amazon enters 2026 carrying the bitter taste of compromise. The world’s attention was fixed on Belém for the COP30 summit in November, transforming the Brazilian city into a ...

Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between environmental protection and economic growth.

Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s government agreed to release photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...