An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

Ninety-five percent of deforestation in the Amazon has occurred within 3.4 miles of a road, according to a landmark 2014 ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon ... home for centuries to Indigenous people known as Mura.

It is planned near the mouth of the Madeira River, which flows into the Amazon River ... to represent a people determined not to be erased,” said Mura, the tribal leader. Indigenous leader ...

There’s a big spotlight in Arizona on missing and murdered Indigenous people. Things hit a boiling point when a Mesa teen was found murdered earlier this year.