To protect the Amazon and support the well-being of its people, its economy must shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built around the diversity of indigenous and rural communities ...

Archaeologists thought ancient Amazonia was only home to wandering people, but new technology has uncovered complex societies ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that precolonial ...

The Siekopai have waged a decades-long fight to get back land in the remote heart of the Amazon which they claim is theirs – Copyright AFP Pedro PARDO They call ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities. Utilizing advanced technologies like LIDAR, scientists have revealed vast, ...

A meeting on the Church in the Amazon region took place in Manaus, Brazil, Aug. 19-22. (Credit: Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.) Listen SÃO PAULO – Five years after the Amazon Synod, members of the ...

A new U.N. report documents some of the most widespread and damaging impacts of the 2023-24 drought in the Amazon basin, which affected hundreds of thousands of Amazonian people. The main impacts were ...

The COP30 climate talks start this week in Belém, a city at the mouth of the Amazon River that Brazil’s leaders chose as a venue to highlight connections between the climate crisis and the world’s ...

Five years ago, on Oct. 7, 2019, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican rang with voices singing of the Amazon. Men and women, some in traditional Indigenous dress, filled the transepts and dome of one ...