Tucked in the northern state of Pará, Belem is a city where urban life meets the wild heart of the Amazon. Often bypassed by ...

Here’s something that foreigners don’t realize: Brazil discriminates against itself. The Northeast—or Nordeste as we call ...

By Aimee Gabay This is part three of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous ...

Some of that deforestation will likely happen in the Cerrado, the savanna biome next to the Amazon that serves as Brazil’s second-largest source of carbon storage. The Cerrado is governed by ...

Pupy the elephant arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday following a 2,700-kilometer ...

For the second time in as many years, the NFL will be playing a Friday night game in Brazil during the first ... Discovery, and Amazon have all “shown interest” in the rights, with some ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Munduruku indigenous activists intermittently shut down the road, also known as the BR-230, beginning on March 25 to put pressure on Brazil's Supreme Court to overturn a 2023 law limiting ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand ...