"Whenever oil companies — or any type of extractivist company — come, they bring diseases. We are condemned with sicknesses, ...

The Karuara are metaphysical ecologists; they maintain the delicate balance of life in the Amazon’s waterways. The lives of ...

The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...

Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, where communities maintaining ... that within these forests are human beings … indigenous peoples who have inhabited these spaces for thousands of ...

The case was made by the G9, a group that brings together representatives of indigenous communities from the nine countries ...

Maloca is the name given to the houses where indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest live, settled in regions of the ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF said Wednesday.

The Peruvian Canadian film Karuara, People of the River ... by Karuara spirits who live in a parallel universe beneath the ...

The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...

The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will travel to Lima, Peru and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil later this ...

It's a silent genocide." Oil and gas pollution in the Amazon has severe health implications for the Indigenous people living ...