SAI CINZA, Brazil >> Deep in the Amazon, Indigenous women say they fear getting pregnant. Rivers that have been the lifeblood of their people now carry mercury from illegal gold mining, threatening ...

A report by advocacy group Amazon Watch highlights how deeply criminal activity and the militarized state responses that they ...

Sister Laura Manso with Adriano Karipuna. Photo courtesy of Tiago Miotto. On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac are joined by Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso, an Indigenous activist ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Beneath a setting sun, marchers clad in feathered headdresses and hand ...

Indigenous know-how about safeguarding nature is wildly necessary, as about 20% of the Amazon Rainforest has already been lost in the past 50 years. Yet, historically, Indigenous nature protection ...

For the first time in the history of UN climate conferences, COP30 will take place in a rainforest. President Lula da Silva has described this symbolic venue as a clear political message: the world ...

The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same. Varî Vãti Marubo is likely one of the oldest people still living ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the southeastern Colombian department of Vaupés, members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community have maintained a healthy territory through ...

Cristina de Souza and Bernardo Alves at the Sateré-Mawé Health and General Monitoring Base in the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Territory of Brazil in July. Credit: Hannah Lima Farbiarz In the creation ...

Deep in the Amazon, Indigenous women say they fear getting pregnant. Rivers that have been the lifeblood of their people now carry mercury from illegal gold mining, threatening the health of their ...

The march marked the opening of a four-day gathering known as the Pan-Amazon Social Forum (FOSPA), a semi-annual incubator where activists and leaders from Indigenous, Afro-descendant and other ...