The ill-fated aircraft was part of a humanitarian airlift, transporting members of the indigenous Yanomami tribe alongside medical personnel to a remote settlement deep within the Amazon rainforest.

Elena Guerra, Marie-Léonie Paradis, and Giuseppe Allamano are among the Blesseds whom Pope Francis will canonize on Oct. 20, ...

Peru faces a regional human rights court over allegations it failed to protect isolated Indigenous peoples in the Amazon from ...

বিশ্বের বিভিন্ন প্রান্তে মৃত্যুর পর শেষকৃত্যের রীতি একেক সমাজে একেক রকম। কোথাও মৃতদেহ কবর দেওয়া হয়, কোথাও আবার দাহ করা হয়। কিন্তু দক্ষিণ আমেরিকার আমাজন অঞ্চলে বসবাসকারী ইয়ানোমামি (Yanomami) উপজাতি ...

Leaders of $100 million effort will use automated detection methods and computer models to monitor species’ trends ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of living alongside the rainforest. From cultivating medicinal plants and ...

First report in the series reveals the 'new tin rush' amid mineral exploitation in indigenous territories and conservation ...

Speaking to Norway for the first time as monarch on Saturday evening, King Haakon VIII paid a deeply personal tribute to his late father, King Harald V. The 53-year-old sovereign took the throne just ...

A comprehensive new International Crisis Group report finds that organized crime has become one of the biggest obstacles to protecting the Amazon, now active in more than two-thirds of Amazon ...

El Niño is back with a vengeance. A mammoth patch of warm water is growing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving four-in-five odds that ...

Five South American countries on Tuesday announced completion of a two-week joint law enforcement operation targeting environmental crimes across the Amazon rainforest. The campaign, dubbed Operation ...

ACRE, Brazil (WKRC) - Archaeologists discovered hundreds of massive glyphs created by an ancient civilization hidden beneath the sprawling fauna of the Amazon rainforest. According to a new study ...