Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday pleaded Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to veto recently approved ...

Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling ...

Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts ...

It’s not that corn sweats more than other plants — an acre releases less moisture on average than, say, a large oak tree — ...

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious ...

Demonstration marks the release of a political declaration by the "Mutirão dos Povos," a coalition of Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and social movements from across the Amazon ...

The threats and intimidation come in many forms: anonymous phone calls warning a human rights defender that he should leave ...

Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say ...

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