Protecting Indigenous territories in areas of the Amazon rainforest with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the number of cases of several diseases (including malaria and respiratory ...

Scientists warn that the Amazon is close to a tipping point Global warming could see parts of rainforest turn into savannah Growing recognition of indigenous role in conserving forest LIMA, Sept 9 ...

Indigenous-held Amazon forest absorbs more CO2 than it emits Other Amazon areas have become a source of planet-heating gases Protecting land from forest loss could avoid tipping point RIO DE ...

Indigenous communities neighboring the peoples living in isolation in Colombian Amazon have spent more than a decade helping the latter remain separate from the outside world. Members of the ...

Indigenous women leaders play a key role as defenders of their territories, biodiversity and ancestral knowledge. From their communities, they lead environmental restoration, collective health care, ...

In September 2021, a multidisciplinary expedition explored one of the least-known regions of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltación in the department of Beni. Organized by the ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. In 2023, she ...

The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 100 demonstrators, including Indigenous people, environmentalists and union members, protested in June against the auction ...

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million Indigenous people around the world directly depend on tropical forests for survival, ...