The Serra do Divisor National Park, in the Brazilian state of Acre, is one of the planet’s most biodiverse areas. Photo: Ramon Aquim Antônio Martins da Costa lives on the banks of the Azul river, ...

Chief Afonso Maricaua, from the Kokama people, of the Estrela da Paz Indigenous Land, in the Upper Solimões. Photo: Christian Braga/InfoAmazonia The promise of an exclusive university for the ...

The special project Until the Last Drop is the result of a nearly year-long, cross-border, multidisciplinary investigation that has explored the Amazon to understand the past, present, and future ...

In the Munduruku indigenous community’s mythology, the Tapajós River was created by the deity Karosakaybu, from the tucumã (a Brazilian palm tree) milk, as a kind of paradise. In the basin of what is ...

Woman Babassu Nutcrackers work in the community of Sumaúma. Photo: Gabriele Roza/InfoAmazonia Seated on the floor of a hut, seven women break babassu nuts open: crack, crack, crack… The echoes of ...

It’s a late afternoon in February, and three young men lounge on the deck of an old boat with peeling white paint moored along Brazil’s Puruê River, deep in the Amazon near the southernmost tip of ...

In Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, the rumble of heavy trucks transporting materials for massive construction projects echoes throughout the city. A new bridge over the Demerara River, an ...

According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades. According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon ...

The Amazon now holds nearly one-fifth of the world’s recently discovered oil and natural gas reserves, establishing itself as a new global frontier for the fossil fuel industry. Almost 20 percent of ...

Miguel has a new job. It looks like he’s managing a café — in the place he oversees, a young man is serving coffee to a group of Brazilian boys, all of whom appear to be under age 18, who are sitting ...

Concept goes beyond the defense of strengthening forest products, and carries the prefix ‘socio’ to show that the way local communities work in the economy in the Amazon, preserving its diversity, is ...

“They bring the whole fruit in the canoe to the base. There, they break them and, once they’re broken, they’re weighed and I pay for them. After, the rest of the work is up to me. I have an employee ...