Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

A Brazilian fugitive wanted for the rape of a 13-year-old child in his native country was arrested in Bourne last month, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso is investigating whether corn ethanol plants are burning wood from illegal deforestation to produce the biofuel, running counter to ...

Brazil has become a global powerhouse when it comes to agriculture. Yet there's friction in the country's rural heartland: Cattle ranchers and... Brazil's Indians Reclaim Land, Citing Promises, Using ...

A recent study found that collectors of seeds of native plant species in Brazil lack the legal framework needed to achieve the nation’s large-scale reforestation goal. Last month, Brazil announced a ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

Daniel Grasel, Philip Martin Fearnside, André Scarlate Rovai, Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule, Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Roger Paulo Mormul, Flávia Duarte Ferraz Sampaio, João André Jarenkow Environmental ...