Deep in the Amazonas region of Brazil, Mayleane Melo leans on her red sofa to ease the pain of a contraction. Her baby is coming. Next to her is Tabita dos Santos Moraes - one of hundreds of midwives ...

This is the second in a series examining the past, present, and future of the pandemic and viral variants. Each successive iteration of SARS-CoV-2 variant to date was more transmissible than the last.

Petrobras PBR, Brazil’s oil and gas company, is under pressure to get approval from Ibama, the country’s environmental agency, for its planned drilling in the Foz do Amazonas region. The company must ...

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras PBR, in a crucial move to gain approval for offshore drilling in Brazil’s Foz do Amazonas region, has completed construction of a veterinary center in the Amazon ...

Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) needs to be granted an environmental license to drill in the sensitive Foz do Amazonas region by the end of April or it will run out of time before the contract with a drilling ...

Petrobras PBR, Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant, has secured a key regulatory approval to initiate emergency response drills in the Foz do Amazonas basin, situated near the mouth of the Amazon ...

In the past five years, a group of miners from the Amazonas Region and Madre de Dios have destroyed about 20 hectares of forest, not including the constant contamination from the Pastacillo stream, in ...

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 May 2005 journalist Luis Peña Vergaray and his translator, Eduardo Arrobo Samaniego, were taken hostage by the Aguarunas indigenous community of Pampa Entsa, in Condorcanqui ...