Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest.

In a joint declaration issued at the Amazon summit, eight South American nations pledged to support Brazil's Tropical Forest ...

A University of Sussex student has recorded an album with an Amazonian Indigenous people in Peru. PhD candidate Ben Kelly ...

The Amazon could be racing closer to a calamitous tipping point that would transform the lush rainforest into a drier savanna within a century, researchers warn. This massive shift could be ...

05-30-2025 IMPACT If the Amazon rainforest dried out, here’s what would happen A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in ...

Isolated tribes still exist More than a million Indigenous people live in the Amazon rainforest. There are more than 400 tribes, most of which have had contact with outsiders for hundreds of years.

The road, which carved a path across the belly of the forest, heralded an epoch of large-scale devastation that remade the Amazon. In local media, Altamira became known as the “champion of ...

However, since 1987, Brazil has banned missionary groups from making contact with the rainforest's isolated Indigenous groups, to protect their culture and their health. Uncontacted people do not ...

Raiumundo Freire, who harvests a mixture of forest products including açaí and cacau, said he’s witnessed the process himself. He first moved to the Triunfo do Xingu territory in 1986, when it ...

Deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, in a part seemingly unmarred by civilization, lives a secluded tribe. Its people have lived quiet, unobtrusive lives, hidden from the eyes of the world for ...