Isolated Indigenous man makes brief contact with outside world, then returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest
A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to ...
Man from uncontacted tribe emerges from rainforest, signals to villagers
Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...
Aquaculture in the Amazon: Lessons for food security and sustainability
Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost ...
Are these the last days of Brazil's realm of hidden wonder?
The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress ...
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The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity
The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous nations, but also the ...
Champagne, pink dolphins, and poisonous frogs. This cruise is totally wild, and completely over the top.
What were the chances that I would see a pink dolphin or a sloth? If those animals were smart, they’d still be sleeping, ...
From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...
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Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time
A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.
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USAID is going away. Here's what it's been doing in South America
In 2024 alone, the agency transferred some $45 million to the U.N. World Food Programme ... for the Conservation of Amazon ...
Amazon's advocates fear Trump's return means little US help to protect rainforest
Besides Trump's withdrawal already from the Paris climate agreement, advocates fear he'll cut U.S. funding for policing that ...
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Storytelling is the beating heart of Indigenous resistance in the Amazon
We Will Be Jaguars’ is a journey through one Indigenous activist's life and the web connecting the Amazon to the fate of the world.
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Cold waves in the rainforest: What they mean for wild animals
It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research ...