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

The invasion of miners into Yanomami land has deepened the challenges faced by the children and adolescents of this indigenous territory, as per a report released this week by the United Nations ...

Objective: To analyze the trend of hospitalizations for primary care-sensitive conditions in children in the state of Roraima, Brazil. Methods: Ecological time series study with secondary data ...

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based arthouse distributor KimStim has acquired North American rights to feature-doc The Falling Sky, about the threat to the existence of the Amazonian Yanomami people, ahead of ...

A new study breaks down the reasons more U.S. adults say they are unlikely to have children. By Christina Caron When Jurnee McKay, 25, imagines having children, a series of scary scenarios pop into ...

A strong denunciation of poor health among Yanomami children has been published in the journal Nature Medicine by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. The article, ...

Premiering in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the documentary spends time with the Yanomami people of the northern Amazon as they prepare for a sacred ritual and monitor the incursions of illegal miners ...

Brazilian directors’ Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s “The Falling Sky” delves into lives of the Amazonian Yanomami people, who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest where they are ...

What drew you to this project? In the book Davi Kopenawa says that it’s his will to extend his world so that white people – non-indigenous people – can hear him and in particular learn how to dream.

EXCLUSIVE: The Indigenous Yanomami people of Brazil were largely left alone until the 1980s, when gold was discovered in their territory in the Amazon. Since then, illegal mining has brought “armed ...

Kopenawa, who wore a traditional feathered headdress and beads around his neck, told reporters afterward he gave Francis a letter laying out the concerns of the Yanomami. He said he asked for Francis ...