The Serra do Divisor National Park, in the Brazilian state of Acre, is one of the planet’s most biodiverse areas. Photo: Ramon Aquim Antônio Martins da Costa lives on the banks of the Azul river, ...

In the Munduruku indigenous community’s mythology, the Tapajós River was created by the deity Karosakaybu, from the tucumã (a Brazilian palm tree) milk, as a kind of paradise. In the basin of what is ...

It’s a late afternoon in February, and three young men lounge on the deck of an old boat with peeling white paint moored along Brazil’s Puruê River, deep in the Amazon near the southernmost tip of ...

The Amazon now holds nearly one-fifth of the world’s recently discovered oil and natural gas reserves, establishing itself as a new global frontier for the fossil fuel industry. Almost 20 percent of ...

Engolindo Fumaça é um projeto especial do InfoAmazonia que investiga os efeitos da poluição do ar causada pelas queimadas sobre a saúde da população amazônica. Em 2020, a trágica combinação entre a ...

Jeremías remembers the date of his river trip: It was July 20, 2021, and on the triple border shared by Peru, Brazil and Colombia on the Amazon River, a three-nation festival was under way. He was ...

Moonlight seeps through an opening in the palm-thatch roof of the maloca, a circular communal house in the Indigenous village of La Pedrera, in a remote corner of southern Colombia. Seated in the ...

Jochen Schöngart move-se rapidamente entre as formações rochosas e encostas do rio Amazonas, não muito longe do centro de Manaus, em uma curta viagem de barco. Ainda é cedo em uma manhã de outubro de ...

According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades. According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon ...

Concept goes beyond the defense of strengthening forest products, and carries the prefix ‘socio’ to show that the way local communities work in the economy in the Amazon, preserving its diversity, is ...

In Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, the rumble of heavy trucks transporting materials for massive construction projects echoes throughout the city. A new bridge over the Demerara River, an ...

Contrary to forecasts made in the 1990s, over 40 areas are guaranteeing the protection of the species without driving the pirarucu to extinction. In addition, sales of the fish provide income to ...