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

More than 9 million acres of tropical primary forests were cut or burned in 2021. Scientists warn that degradation of the Amazon is pushing it closer toward a tipping point of ecosystem collapse, ...

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.

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. A 2023 court ruling granted land rights in Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Reserve to the Siekopai people, recognizing their ancestral ties and setting a ...

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 ...

Cristina de Souza and Bernardo Alves at the Sateré-Mawé Health and General Monitoring Base in the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Territory of Brazil in July. Credit: Hannah Lima Farbiarz In the creation ...

Climate change may reduce the native plant species used by Indigenous cultures in the Amazon basin by one-third according to research published in Nature. The reduction in the availability of ...

RICHMOND, Calif. — An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond, Calif., on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest ...