For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

In the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco doc 'Yanuni,' Richard Ladkani’s lens doesn’t just capture the Amazonian landscape, but ...

As Linda Alvarado, a young Indigenous Yine leader, travels through the forest in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, she ...

Prince William hails a group of all-women wildlife warriors working to protect part of the Amazon in Brazil on the series ...

Indigenous groups and environmental activists rallied in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as Brazil auctioned off oil blocks near the ecologically sensitive Amazon River mouth. READ MORE : Let the pictures ...

Taily Terena is a young Indigenous activist from Brazil of the Xané (Terena) ethnicity whose work centers on human rights, gender issues, youth and environmental protection. In 2025, Taily was ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies. ... “We still have few women, few Black people, almost no Indigenous ...

Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the urgency that “Yanuni” does. Even fewer blend political thrills with meditative visual poetry, but Austrian director Richard Ladkani strikes ...

On a trip to Brazil, State Sen. London Lamar saw abortion restrictions, but also investment in public healthcare and women fighting for their rights.

The 2022 defeat of President Jair Bolsonaro, plus the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, yield nominal victories for Indigenous folks, including the appointment of Juma to a newly created ...