Scientists say recent research has reinforced understanding of the region's past not as a human desert, but rather as a ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the "genocide, ...

These discoveries reinforce a growing understanding that the Amazon was far from a ‘human desert’ before colonisation ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian indigenous tribes and rubber tappers joined forces on Wednesday to oppose steps by Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro that they say are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo of an Awa Guajá couple was taken only five days before their first contact with outsiders in 1992. “Uncontacted peoples ...

PALIMIU, Brazil—As two helicopters from Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama and the police landed in a clearing in the heart of the Amazon, the hard-bitten men who make a living illegally panning for ...