The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian crisis circled the globe early this year. On Jan. 21, the ...

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 ...

Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman, listens to reporters' questions during a press conference after his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman, ...

A clash over mining in the Amazon region between two Yanomami Indigenous groups has left two people dead and five injured, according to the president of the local health council. In a video posted ...

David Good is a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph. His study is focused on uncovering the healthy bacteria in the ...

An estimated 20,000 illegal goldminers (garimpeiros) have entered Yanomami Park, one of Brazil’s biggest indigenous reserves, located in Roraima and Amazonas states, near the border with Venezuela.

A new generation of craft chocolate makers in Brazil is creating bars with “identity.” And they’re helping to sustain the ...

The indigenous Yanomami, who have lived in the remote tropical rainforests of northern Brazil for millennia, are under threat after a measles outbreak swept across the Amazon peoples. If emergency ...

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 ...