The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned ...

A new peer-reviewed study examined the impact Indigenous territories have on human health in two categories of diseases, ...

Indigenous territories are widely recognized as vital for conserving the environment and biodiversity, but far less is known ...

New studies find that amid modest climate change, Amazonian fires dropped dramatically and rice yields are up sharply.

Findings add to mounting evidence that recognizing and enforcing Indigenous Peoples’ land rights has widespread benefits – for the climate, nature and, now, health ...

Protecting Indigenous territories in areas of the Amazon rainforest with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the ...

The findings of the study underscored the imperative role that the indigenous community has to play in humanity's fight ...

The findings, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, show that deforestation accounted for a nearly 74% of the reduction in rainfall over the 35 years. It also accounted for 16.5% of the ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest ...

Cornell Students for Animal Rights and Cornell Vegan Society stood in solidarity outside of Barton Hall during Sunday’s ClubFest, bearing signs of “Burning the Amazon is Genocide” and “Take Action” to ...

New study across 8 Amazon nations reveals forests on Indigenous lands act as natural shields against respiratory, ...

By Anna Gielas In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special operations unit. Known as the Grupo de Especialização de Fiscalização (GEF), the ...