International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9 is an annual United Nations holiday celebrating and honoring the estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples living in the world today.

A watercourse meanders through the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region fell to its lowest level in six years at the beginning of 2024. Jens Büttner/dpa Around the world, ...

For the first time in the history of UN climate conferences, COP30 will take place in a rainforest. President Lula da Silva has described this symbolic venue as a clear political message: the world ...

Members of MAHKU live in a remote area of the Amazon and use ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew, to create paintings that ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people are used to adapting, so when the power failed at their kickoff event at this year’s United Nations climate talks, they rolled with it. Participants from around ...

NEW YORK — Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug ...

BELEM, Brazil — Indigenous people are used to adapting, so when the power failed at their kickoff event at this year's United Nations climate talks, they rolled with it. Participants from around the ...