More than 90 bishops from different parts of the Pan-Amazon region gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, Aug. 17-20 to take a fundamental step in the implementation of some of the Amazon sy ...

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Led by a teacher and a family farmer, 15 traditional communities living in public forests in Brazil’s Amazonas state earned official recognition and the rights to collective use of their ...

An Amazonian tribe in Brazil has won a lawsuit against the family-run timber companies who illegally deforested their land more than two decades ago, officials recently announced.

The focus region for the Amazonian Rivulid Expedition was defined according to information found in the existing scientific literature, especially from the past two decades.

The new 64-page instrumentum laboris, which will form the basis of discussion at the Oct. 6-27 synod, focuses on themes such as inculturation, ‘ecological conversion’ and synodality.

Overall, and perhaps more startling, ter Steege and his team concluded that one-quarter to one half of all Amazonian tree species may experience population declines of over 30 percent.

An “Amazonian Stations of the Cross” was prayed outside the Vatican Saturday, organized as part of a set of semi-official events connected to the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon.

Camu camu will soon dethrone açai — an Amazonian berry that's made its mark in the crowded health food market. Or so its promoters are claiming. We asked NPR's Brazil bureau to investigate.

An indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand help from the central government after an oil spill polluted its lands, authorities said Monday.