Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

Despite its ecological importance, parts of the Amazon are hotbeds of violence, illegal deforestation, cattle grazing, mining, and drug smuggling. Mongabay’s reporters traveled to the rainforest, at ...

Indigenous people and environmental activists protested outside a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro where the auctions to sell oil exploration rights took place.

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed economic sanctions on five high-ranking members of Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel for their drug trafficking, while also citing ...

PHOENIX - A woman was arrested on an assault charge Saturday at an immigration protest in front of a Phoenix furniture store that has become a weekly fixture. Phoenix police spokesman Sgt.