An active lifestyle and diet high in fiber-rich carbohydrates and fish was associated with very low CAC scores and CVD in the Tsimane people.

An estimated 7,000 Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation in the country’s Amazon forests, but they face increased ...

Cattle breeders, indigenous teachers and loggers are among the more than 20 million people living in the Amazon in northern Brazil, carving out a living from the world's largest rainforest. Three ...

COVID-19 has reached the frontier towns in the Amazon rainforest. Can it be kept out of indigenous villages deeper in the forest?

What could happen to Peru's Mashco Piro tribe who live in the Amazon rainforest if the isolated community comes into contact with other groups.

In the Amazon rainforest, this tribe may just save the whole world The Surui in Brazil are fending off illegal ranchers, gold miners and loggers. Their weapons: boots on the ground, satellite ...

Directly affected are 47 million people living in the Amazon region who depend on the forest for their livelihoods, fresh water and other resources.

Brazil Thousands of Amazon indigenous are leaving the forest to experience a new life in cities Nearly half of the 6,200 Indigenous people in the Javari Valley now live in urban centers Associated ...

Indigenous peoples and farmers are clashing over the fires raging in the Brazilian parts of the Amazon Rainforest. For many indigenous peoples, the land is sacred. But farmers are clearing the ...

Over the last decade or so, evidence has been emerging from the Amazon basin that suggests before the arrival of the Spanish, the rainforest may have supported millions of people living in ...

People living in the area thousands of years ago may have changed the forest around them in ways that are still visible today ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense ...