Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification ...

Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about ...

In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest soybean traders in Brazil, announced its withdrawal from the Amazon soy ...

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

Native Performing Arts Network, which began as a pilot program called Native Theater Project, launched its first season of ...

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in ...

The crackdown on unauthorized immigrants is resonating deeply among the Dakota and other tribes, as residents confront what ...

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...

Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns ...

Brazil moves to protect acai’s identity amid fears of biopiracy, as global demand for Amazonian “superfoods” fuels disputes over trademarks, patents and ownership.