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BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The diminutive woman with a white feather headdress stood on the stage of the majestic colonial theater in Brazil’s Amazon on Monday and addressed the crowd. The woman, Minister of Indigenous People Sonia Guajajara, declared the day “the milestone of Indigenous participation,” then cited the national statistics institute’s freshly released census […]

The number of Indigenous people in Brazil, which makes up 0.8% of the country, has nearly doubled its previous census count in 2010 with almost 1.7 million.

A new report warns that it is “virtually certain” that future extreme events in Antarctica will be worse than the extraordinary changes already observed.

Leaders from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, which make up the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) are to convene Tuesday and Wednesday in Belém, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará to discuss a new development model to put an end to the cycle of destruction that is devastating the largest tropical forest on the planet.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Brazil hosted regional leaders to confer on the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest, an ecosystem vital to the battle against climate change. South American nations are split, however, on a complete deforestation ban.

Conclave represents handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power

PetroTal Corp on Tuesday reported a lower second quarter profit than a year ago, as the price of Brent eased. The Alberta, Canada-based oil and gas company, which is focused on the development of oil...

One reason weather can cause more damage when the world gets hotter is because warmer air can hold more moisture.

My big brother John and I were bursting at the seams upon arriving at the “Happiest Place on Earth” fifty years ago this week.