Brazilian federal prosecutors have asked Petrobras, the state-run oil company, to conduct more studies before drilling near the Amazon rainforest ...

Photojournalist Thomas Peschak overcomes challenges to bring the Amazon River system to life in pictures to protect it. Read ...

Brazilian federal prosecutors asked state-run oil firm Petrobras to do more studies before drilling off the coast of the ...

One of the biggest hydropower plants in South America is ramping up electricity generation as the historic drought in the ...

Santo Antonio is one of Brazil's biggest hydroelectric plants. Its head said that the plant had survived an extreme drought. He ...

There is a historic opera house in the Amazon that is a destination for some famous singers, musicians and local fans.

Since then Brazil’s now $700m+ diamond industry has moved into the territory, completely changing the indigenous peoples’ way ...

The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has ...

STORY: Flying over Brazil's Para state, agents from the country's environmental protection agency spot signs of an illegal ...

(Reuters) - Reuters sent out some 1.6 million pictures to the world in 2024, covering news and daily life, tragedies and ...

It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an ...

Surrounded by soy fields and cattle pastures, Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory — still shrouded ...