A short boat ride from Cop30 lies the home of Seu Ladi, who tells Nick Ferris how deforestation and climate change has ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government's effort to evict illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the northern Amazon has stalled with outsiders increasingly invading the ...

The alerts of illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land have zeroed for the first time since 2020, according to satellite monitoring by the Brazilian Federal Police. Military operations continue ...

Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman, listens to reporters’ questions during a press conference after his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday. Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman, said he came ...

The Brazilian president insisted on a summit shaped by local people, their traditions, and their foods, staging what has been hailed as ‘the COP of the people’ and, crucially, an Indigenous COP. The ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — An Indigenous group in Brazil said Wednesday its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police. The non-profit Urihi ...

VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Wednesday with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people, who asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s efforts to reverse decades of ...

Illegal mining activities have caused socio-environmental problems, mainly due to the contamination of rivers with mercury ...

The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian crisis circled the globe early this year. On Jan. 21, the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro with their faces painted red in a traditional Indigenous manner while percussionists had “Miners out” written across the ...

A teenager from an isolated Amazonian tribe who tested positive for Covid-19 has died, raising concerns about the coronavirus' impact on the region's indigenous people. The 15-year-old boy, a Yanomami ...