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 ...

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.

Pink dolphins, whose official name is the Amazon river dolphin, can be found throughout the Amazon river basins in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil ... They mainly hunt at night and like to dine on insects ...

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.

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.

The Amazon region produces more than a quarter of the energy in Brazil. Still, hundreds of thousands of families are off the grid and rely on expensive diesel generators to produce electricity.

Brazil plans to dredge parts of the Amazon River after water levels reached a record low, endangering vital trade routes. Authorities say an artificially deeper river will restart the steady flow ...

At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates ... seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion.