Drug traffickers, illegal miners and criminal syndicates are rapidly expanding across the Amazon, pushing the rainforest closer to ecological collapse.

From untamed wilderness to electrifying carnivals, South America’s biggest country has something for every type of traveller ...

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the ...

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply ...

This 4-day Amazon journey goes deep into Brazil’s rainforest, far beyond roads, cell service, and normal tourist routes. From ...

The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating ...

The case has been pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since 2011, as Indigenous and riverside ...

For nearly two decades, the Amazon Soy Moratorium helped draw a line. It stopped major traders from buying soy grown on land ...

The Amazon basin holds the largest mass of moving freshwater on the planet. Its tributaries are born in the Andes, pass ...

Global demand for critical minerals, used to build drones and electric cars, is surging, setting of a new wave of criminality ...