The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado, defending a biodiversity-rich savanna increasingly threatened by climate change.

Majorities in the six countries surveyed believe in God, in life after death, and that spells, curses or other magic can ...

Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender. The rare case, which is due ...

The world’s most biodiverse nation, Brazil, has published its UN plan for halting and reversing nature decline by the end of this decade.

Growing numbers of Latin Americans are religiously unaffiliated, but belief in God remains high across the region.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Deforestation has reduced the plants and animals on which mosquitoes feed.