Just a few hundred feet from the Amazon River delta, Ivan Ferreira is converting used shipping containers into hotel rooms ...

A Brazilian federal police investigator reported Wednesday night that a suspect has confessed to fatally shooting an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote part of the Amazon.

Research in Brazil and Colombia shows that nearly all Amazon deforestation occurs within a few kilometers of roadways. Road by road, Amazon cities grew with their "backs to the river," as locals ...

BELEM, Brazil, Aug 7 (Reuters ... at the summit over new permits for oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River, and over the deforestation resulting from rapid agricultural expansion.

Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil ... to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion.

Brazil has a rich cultural heritage, countrywide celebrations, locally sourced scrumptious cuisine and natural attractions that attract millions of travelers every year.

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to ...

The Amazon River along with various tributaries together form the Amazon Basin. The Basin covers areas of Peru, Brazil ... Weather during the day and night is hot. The humidity remains high ...

a research scientist Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research. So too is the Solimões River, whose muddy-colored waters converge with the Rio Negro at Manaus to form the Amazon River.

More than half of Brazil's exported gold is believed to come from illegal mining which destroys the Amazon and Indigenous ... the banks of the broad Tapajos River. Itaituba's 62-year-old mayor ...