The Amazon region, Earth's most important ecosystem, is home to more than 400 Indigenous groups that use thousands of ...

To protect the Amazon and support the well-being of its people, its economy must shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built around the diversity of indigenous and rural communities ...

Deep inside the Amazon, Indigenous leaders are fighting to preserve the rainforest More than 9 million acres of tropical ...

Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found. By Raymond Zhong and Flávia ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

A meeting on the Church in the Amazon region took place in Manaus, Brazil, Aug. 19-22. (Credit: Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.) Listen SÃO PAULO – Five years after the Amazon Synod, members of the ...

The Siekopai have waged a decades-long fight to get back land in the remote heart of the Amazon which they claim is theirs – Copyright AFP Pedro PARDO They call ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new U.N. report documents some of the most widespread and damaging impacts of the 2023-24 drought in the Amazon basin, which affected hundreds of ...

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Five years ago, on Oct. 7, 2019, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican rang with voices singing of the Amazon. Men and women, some in traditional Indigenous dress, filled the transepts and dome of one ...