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  • Highway 163 was cut through the jungle in the 1970s to connect the Amazon to the rest of Brazil, but the job wasn't completed. Under pressure from agribusiness, the government plans to pave the remaining 600 miles north of Guarantã do Norte.
    Agribusiness Boom Brings Change to the Amazon
    An agribusiness boom is turning millions of acres of Amazon rainforest into a tropical version of Kansas. NPR's Martin Kaste has the first of two reports.
  • Catholic Bishops Meet To Discuss Amazon
    Over 200 priests, bishops and nuns are gathering at the Vatican for a three-week meeting focusing on the Amazon. Among the topics: ordaining older, married men to serve in remote communities.
  • This year's SXSW festival was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the films that were scheduled to be shown there have the option to be screened on Amazon.
    SXSW Film Festival Heads To Amazon
    The SXSW Film Festival joins other canceled or postponed film fests looking for alternate ways to screen their movies.
  • Reili Franciscato, pictured in 1997, on the Purus River in Brazil. Franciscato died Wednesday in the Amazon rainforest, shot with an arrow.
    Defender Of Amazon Tribes Killed In Brazil
    Rieli Franciscato was a leading expert on uncontacted tribes and was killed while on a mission to shield an isolated indigenous group from a possible hostile encounter with outsiders.
  • How Will Amazon's Fire Impact Apple?
    On Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the release of a tablet device called Fire. Michele Norris will talk with NPR's Laura Sydell about what this means for Amazon, Apple and consumers.
  • The rain forest around the Amazon River is home to some of the only surviving societies of people untouched by modern civilization.
    'Unconquered' Explores An Isolated Amazon Tribe
    In his book The Unconquered, journalist Scott Wallace goes deep into the Amazon rain forest to learn about a group that has never come into contact with modern civilization.
  • Images of British journalist Dom Phillips (left) and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira are seen on a sign presented by employees of Brazil's national Indigenous agency, FUNAI, during a vigil in Brasilia, Brazil, on June 9.
    Opinion: A violent tragedy foretold in the Amazon
    Two of the Amazon rainforest's staunchest advocates, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, are believed to have been killed in one of its remotest corners.
  • A look at the person behind the Amazon lawsuit
    NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Wall Street Journal's tech policy reporter Ryan Tracy about the FTC Chair Lina Khan.
  • Ann Patchett lives in Nashville, Tenn. She is the author of five other novels and two works of nonfiction.
    Ann Patchett Journeys To The Amazon With 'Wonder'
    Ann Patchett has a knack for taking her readers to completely new places and her latest novel is no exception. Patchett takes on everlasting fertility in the deadly, mysterious depths of the Amazon in State of Wonder.
  • The Deadly Fight To Protect Brazil's Amazon
    Brazilian activists fighting to protect the Amazon from deforestation face violent opposition — sometimes, death. Scores of people fighting to protect the forest have been killed in recent years.
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