BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — From a distance, the small group lying on the sidewalk outside the city market could be confused with hundreds of homeless people spread through Boa Vista. But they are ...

ACADEME MEETS FICTION, PART 1: Before the accusations flew that Napoleon A. Chagnon had both mistreated and misrepresented the Yanomami people, his research made the Amazon tribe one of the most ...

Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Many Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Indigenous tribe, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and this month the federal government declared a public ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a ...

FILE - A Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter flies over an illegal mining camp during an operation to try to contain it in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. The ...

Freezing temperatures are expected in all of Southeast Michigan Sunday night and Sunday morning. Expect lows in the mid to upper 20s. (WDIV) Read full article: Risk of slick spots as temps plummet in ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages have been contaminated with high levels of mercury. About 300 people of varying ages had hair ...