Updated at 12:12 p.m. ET on November 13, 2020. I ’m on a speedboat on the Rio Madeira, which translates to “wood river,” near the Brazilian city of Porto Velho in the upper Amazon River ...

Midwife Tabita dos Santos Moraes, 51, touches the belly of Mayleane Melo, 22, to monitor the baby's position, at the Deus e Pai community in Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, October 24, 2024.

When harvest season comes to the Amazon, Irlene das Graças da Cunha de Figueiredo’s day revolves around fish. During a handful of days every year, when the floodwaters of the river are high ...

Boats navigate a river in Carauari, Brazil, on Sept. 7, 2022. Jorge Saenz / AP But outside these reserves, in many places, people take orders from self-appointed landowners, Campos-Silva said.

Eliane has been documenting this for decades, and much of that work appears in her new book, Banzeiro Òkòtó, or The Amazon as the Center of the World, out on March 7th.It's why we're also ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups ...

DEUS E PAI, Brazil, March 20 (Reuters) - Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the ...