Amid mounting global health concerns about PFAS, communities living along the waterway must grapple with how contamination is ...

Indigenous peoples in Brazil have won a new right: a share in the profits of hydroelectric plants that cause them harm when built on or near their lands.  This was established in a preliminary ruling ...

When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on ...

They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a ...

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Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo has spent a lifetime working with the endangered creatures, which offer a window ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing ...

A 2024 study found that individuals living near river drains are at a high risk of cancer. The Indian government has approved various initiatives, including the establishment of cancer institutes and ...

Adventurer describes going where nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest. Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea. More than 62,000 sq km ...

Catherine Fookes, MP for Monmouthshire, has praised a £1 million joint UK-Welsh Government initiative to address River Wye pollution. The research scheme, run by Defra and the Welsh Government ...