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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC, August 28, 2025 – The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a new project to protect forests and promote sustainable development in the Lower Xingu region, in the state of Pará, ...

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and ...

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 ...

The National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) has unveiled some stunning unseen photos they managed to capture of a never-before ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A professor at the University of Florida, Michael Heckenberger has been visiting and studying Indigenous peoples at the Upper Xingu River for ...

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.

RIO DE JANEIRO >> It was considered to be among the world’s most productive partnerships between an Indigenous chief and a Westerner. For five decades, the Amazonian tribal leader and Belgian film ...

The internet is both a wonderful thing and a horrible thing — a lesson that a remote Amazon tribe is now learning the hard way. After getting access to the internet just nine months ago, the Marubo ...

Results are presented on species richness and distribution of the crustacean fauna obtained by iXingu Project expeditions along the middle and lower Xingu River during low and high water seasons ...

The last known surviving member of an Amazon tribe — dubbed “The Man of the Hole” — has died in Brazil, after resisting any contact with the outside world for nearly 30 years, officials said. Brazil’s ...