Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is pressuring the government’s environment agency Ibama to drop its objections to allowing state-controlled oil energy Petrobras to drill for oil in the ...

There’s a chance the gold ring on your finger or the chain around your neck has a link to the prolific destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Peru ... the Madre de Dios region where the ...

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented ... as late as the 1990s, the ...

Rare drone footage reveals a hidden world of uncontacted tribes, living in isolation far from modern civilization. These ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

They’re doing this work very bravely, without any support.” For the people defending human rights and the environment in ...