Fresh out of college, Johnson helped lead signature gathering and field organizing to pass Ballot Measure 7, which banned all new nuclear power plants in the state until the U.S. had a federally ...

The jungle, I knew, was dangerous. There were animals throughout southwestern Peru’s Manú National Park that could, if push came to shove, tear my face clean off. The Andean spectacled bear in the ...

A family of three isolated Indigenous people got separated from their group and ended up contacting non-Indigenous society in one of the best-preserved areas of the Brazilian Amazon. For more than a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

The Pira Parana territory is host to 17 communities of six different tribes - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Andrew Harnik The Pira Parana territory is ...