The Amazon Rainforest is a major bucket list destination, but you CAN visit the Amazon on a budget, without doing an expensive river cruise. Here's how and why Brazil jungle tours are the best.

On the lush banks of the Amônia River, where Brazil meets Peru deep in the Amazon, the Ashaninka Indigenous community is quietly spending $3 million in reparations for illegal logging.

An Indigenous man protests against the auction of dozens of oil blocks, including blocks near the mouth of the Amazon River, in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that ...

A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk — only to be torn apart by social media and pornography addiction, elders complain. Brazil’s 2,000 ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on ...

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to curb the use of its services in ...

But now Brazil’s new leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has made saving the Yanomamis his top priority in his push to halt the Amazon’s destruction.

Locals near Brazil’s Fonte Boa region initially discovered the large urns sticking out of the ground where a tree was uprooted, experts said.

Deforestation in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest slowed over the last 12 months by nearly half compared to the previous year, according to new government data. The country lost 4300 ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion ...