Fernanda Torres, up for an Oscar, embodies the courage required to stare down an oppressive dictatorship in "I'm Not There." ...

Historic Indigenous leaders still fell. Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, who led his Xingu people for five decades. Paulinho Paiakan, of the Kayapó. Artist and healer Vovó Bernaldina… from the Macuxi tribe ...

Many Maká traditions have slowly faded. Yet a few elders among these Paraguayan Indigenous people recall how their songs imitated birds.

The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous nations, but also the ...

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the Indigenous people who live there ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

By Mongabay.com Blood Timber, a Mongabay series on illegal logging and cattle ranching in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, has ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Nine months ahead of this year's annual U.N. climate summit, known as COP30, lodging prices in the Brazilian host city of ...

Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.

An international team of scientists has tentatively found some of the earliest indications of alcoholic drink production in the Patos Lagoon region of Brazil. State-of-the-art analysis of pottery ...

Brazil plans to propose social diversity as a global criteria for labeling sustainable investments at the U.N. climate summit ...