Astonishing new photos from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest give a glimpse of a prosperous, never-before-seen indigenous community living near the Bolivian border, according to a report.

Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published by the Brazilian Forum of Public Security.

The images are the first-known sighting of the Massaco tribe - a reclusive indigenous group named after the river that runs through their lands in Brazil's rainforest, and are known to deter visitors

According to a new report, organized criminal gangs have expanded their presence in over a third of municipalities in Brazil's rainforest region.

By Fernanda Wenzel When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon was out of control. According to the research collective MapBiomas,

Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil's Amazon to the United States, Dubai and Italy.

The Brazilian National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Funai) says that their population has more than doubled since the early 1990s. Altair Algayer, a government agent with Funai, had reportedly placed a camera in the rainforest to take their images. Algayer has reportedly spent more than three decades protecting the Massaco territory.

NEW photos from hidden cameras gives the world its first ever glimpse of one of the last uncontacted Amazon tribes. The group is so secretive that no-one knows its true name, though outsiders call

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino shot back Sunday after President-elect Trump suggested the Panama Canal return to U.S. control. “As president, I want to express clearly that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama, and will continue to do so,” Mulino said in video statement, according to an…

Gold is difficult to trace, especially once metal from different sources has been melted together. Investigators say this is changing.

A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, claiming the deal has created an uneven playing field.