Archaeological work in the Xingu territory of Brazil is rewriting assumptions about civilization in the Amazon. Through decades of partnership between the Kuikuro people and Western researchers, ...

The waters of the Amazon rainforest are fast becoming ground zero in the battle between development and the environment. The Brazilian government wants to harness the hydroelectric power potential of ...

Since 2016, when the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam began operating on Brazil’s Xingu River, the Volta Grande, “an 80-mile stretch of river and seasonally flooded forest that is a global biodiversity ...

Introduction -- Chief's speech : Wauja ancestors, political authority, and belonging -- Bringing spirits : ritual curing and Wauja relations with spirits -- Kuri sings : intergroup rivalry and ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.

Indigenous groups in Brazil organized protests on Friday in Belém, blocking the main entrance to the restricted area at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) and demanding that the Brazilian ...

Indigenous people of the Munduruku tribe on Friday staged a protest at the entrance of the Blue Zone at the ongoing COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is demanding an emergency meeting ...

Parotocinclus kwarup, new species, is described as a new hypoptopomatine cascudinho from tributaries of the upper Xingu River in the Amazon basin of Brazil. The new species is distinguished from its ...

Red John” is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon.He helps clears pastures cheaply, but also leaves blackened earth and charred trees in ...