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 ...

The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) conducted a series of tests among Yanomami indigenous people in the state of Roraima in northern Brazil which detected the presence of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition ...

Over the past five decades, activist and photographer Claudia Andujar has worked with the Amazon’s Yanomami people to defend their native rights. Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "The white people come here to take images and do not show them back to us," says Octavio Yanomami from the Marauia River, where the ...

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 ...

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

BRASILIA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Two Yanomami children drowned in a river on their reservation where illegal gold miners operate a dredger, an indigenous leader said on Thursday, alleging the boys were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — From a distance, ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a ...

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