From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

A family of three isolated Indigenous people got separated from their group and ended up contacting non-Indigenous society in one of the best-preserved areas of the Brazilian Amazon. For more than a ...

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If you thought the age of Christian missionaries traveling the world to spread the word of God and evangelize locals was over, think again—they’ve just gotten sneakier. A recent investigation by The ...

The long ordeal of the Kaxuyana, an Amazonian tribe airlifted from its land during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1960s, reached a happy conclusion at the COP30 summit in the city of Belém. On ...

Uncontacted Indigenous tribes are “at the edge of survival” as growing contact by missionaries, miners, criminal gangs and social media influencers spreads diseases and wipes out forests, according to ...

In the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco doc, Richard Ladkani’s lens doesn’t just capture the Amazonian landscape, but also embodies its poetry. Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the ...

Indigenous people celebrate after a majority of Supreme Court justices ruled to enshrine their land rights in a landmark case in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Gustavo Moreno) ...