Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of ...

By André Schröder On Nov. 7 in Brazil, Indigenous people from the Tupinambá and other ethnic groups occupied the Tapajós ...

Reducing arsenic levels in drinking water has significant health benefits, according to a long-term study in Bangladesh, a global hotspot for groundwater arsenic contamination. ● Indigenous ...

Some 30 years ago, Apolo Heringer, a Brazilian public health doctor, was participating in a night fishing trip with residents ...

Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch ...

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon. For most of his life, Welton de Franca ...

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and ...

Since 2016, when the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam began operating on Brazil’s Xingu River, the Volta Grande, “an 80-mile stretch of river and seasonally flooded forest that is a global biodiversity ...

STORY: This river in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state has one of the world’s highest concentrations of microplastic pollution, according to a new study. Its findings are raising concerns among scientists and ...

A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil's worst environmental disaster when a ...