BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.

When it comes to making a statement, Anitta knows how to do it with charisma, authenticity, and cultural respect. The global pop queen is once again at the center of the conversation after a powerful ...

Anitta had the honor of getting her body painted by indigenous people during a Kuarup ceremony in Xingu — but it was her sculpted backside that sparked endless online chatter. The singer, 32, took ...

Since 2016, when the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam began operating on Brazil’s Xingu River, the Volta Grande, “an 80-mile stretch of river and seasonally flooded forest that is a global biodiversity ...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil's indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to ...

As can happen when mammoth projects are planned in Indigenous communities, Brazil Potash's plans are sparking fears of ...

Parotocinclus kwarup, new species, is described as a new hypoptopomatine cascudinho from tributaries of the upper Xingu River in the Amazon basin of Brazil. The new species is distinguished from its ...