As environmental crimes threaten Indigenous communities in the Amazon, their struggles are ignored by a humanitarian system ...

A new study has found that 60% of the Amazon remains hidden. It suggests the region has unknown tribes and species we are yet ...

Scientists say recent research has reinforced understanding of the region's past not as a human desert, but rather as a ...

Archaeologists uncovered pottery and stone monuments left by Amazon's indigenous inhabitants centuries before colonization.

An Indian family was denied boarding a flight to Peru due to a misunderstanding of visa exemption rules, highlighting the ...

Peruvians will vote for a president in a runoff election in June after none of the 35 candidates in Sunday’s contest secured an outright victory, but the two contenders of the ...

They have lived for 60,000 years without a single phone call, a single road, or a single outsider stepping foot on their land. A drone just flew over their hidden world and captured what no camera has ...

Discussions around the construction of a railway line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in South America have raised concerns about the potential social and environmental impacts. Experts warn ...

“Amazomania” is exactly the kind of documentary one hopes to see in the main competition of a film festival like CPH:DOX: ambitious, sprawling, with a lot on its mind. It demands patience from the ...

Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A chorus of high-pitched squeals cuts through the blanket of mist. We steer our skiff, bobbing up and down on the syrupy brown waters, toward the racket. “It's a troop of squirrel monkeys,” says my ...

When Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency announced that the Akuntsu people — a tribe reduced to just three women — had celebrated their first childbirth in 30 years, Amazon correspondent Gabriela Sá ...