Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...

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 ...

Brazil announced on Friday the suspension of dredging operations on a major Amazon tributary, after Indigenous communities ...

Healthy forests in protected Indigenous territories could help reduce the risk of certain illnesses for humans, a new study shows. Different factors influence how effective Indigenous territories are ...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises to protect the region's rainforest into concrete action, ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Protecting Indigenous territories in areas of the Amazon rainforest with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the number of cases of several diseases (including malaria and respiratory ...