Brazil’s tropical savanna has often stood in the shadow of the Amazon when researchers reconstruct precolonial land use. Large settlement remains and human chemistry now point to intensive but ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. According to Brazil’s Ministry of Health data obtained by Mongabay, of the 4,134 Indigenous villages in Brazil’s North Region, only 1,934 — about ...

According to a study published in the journal Science Advances, corn cultivation was essential for the subsistence and development of large villages ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Indigenous people from nine villages in Brazil's Yanomami territory were found to be contaminated by mercury, with those living closer to illegal gold mining sites ...

Marcio Karai straddles a tree trunk near his home on the outskirts of Brazil’s Sao Paulo, setting a small cube before him. The wooden box will serve as a new hive for a colony of native Mirim ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Indigenous people from nine villages in Brazil’s Yanomami territory were found to be contaminated by mercury, with those living closer to illegal gold mining sites ...