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A man is facing charges after police say he threatened an Amazon delivery driver with a gun in Brentwood.

This staple of Brazilian street food takes you on a journey through the flavors and textures of the nation's cuisine in each heaping bowlful.

Indigenous protesters on Friday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through their lands to carry grains to a northern port in the Amazon. The 1,000-km (620-mile) Ferrograo railway is backed by farmers and grain companies who say it would reduce reliance on roads and lower costs for transporting soy from the farm state of Mato Grosso to the river ports in the Amazon basin. But Munduruku and Kayapo Indigenous communities say they have not bee...

The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be close friends at this year's Cannes Film Festival. With his feathered crown and wooden lip plate, Chief Raoni of the Kayapo tribe is instantly recognizable the world over. Almost always in the background was a less familiar face, that of Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, whose documentary about Raoni was a 1979 Oscar nominee.

Alaska Airlines will inherit a cargo business for Amazon as part of its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. The post Alaska Airlines to fly Amazon packages after completing Hawaiian buy appeared first on FreightWaves.

The government expressed "deep regret" over Quinto Inuma's death, describing the attack as "cowardly".

(KRON) — An Amazon delivery driver in San Ramon was kidnapped after a vehicle collision Saturday afternoon, the San Ramon Police Department told KRON4. Around 3 p.m., the Amazon truck and a dark-colored SUV collided near Crow Canyon Road and San Ramon Valley Boulevard. An unknown man and a woman were inside the SUV. The […]

Take a tour of the world’s most famous waterways on your next holiday

Renowned for its stunning biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest region is also home to a vast array of people and cultures. “People usually think that the environment doesn’t contain and include people, but it does,” said soil scientist Judson Ferreira Valentim, who lives in Brazil’s Acre state. From small villages of thatched homes to the skyline of Belém rising above mist on the river – a view sometimes called “Manhattan of the Amazon” &#x2...

At dawn in this small Amazonian village in Brazil's Para state, flocks of noisy green parrots soar overhead as children run and play between wooden homes, kicking up sandy soil — in places white and bare as a beach. The ground reveals one of the paradoxes of the rainforest. Renowned for its beauty and biodiversity, the life-giving nutrients of the forest are mostly stored in the trees and other plants, not the soil.