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How social media invented the 'world's most racist country'

During the recent World Cup, the clash between national teams quickly escalated into an international campaign against ...
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Meet the Woman Reconnecting the Amazon One Canopy Bridge at a Time

In the Brazilian Amazon, a highway can be far more than a strip of pavement. For monkeys that spend most of their lives moving through the treetops, a road can divide one continuous forest into two ...

Brazil's government says it is working with Peru to protect border Indigenous lands

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous ...

Brazil uses forensic science to trace gold’s origin and tackle illegal mining in the Amazon

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is using forensic science to tackle illegal gold mining in the Amazon, a top threat to the ...

Canada's most underrated national park rivals Brazil's Pantanal

Vast prairies, rare wildlife, Indigenous history, and some of the country's best stargazing make Grasslands National Park a ...

A model Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Amazon seeks protection from criminal gangs

Gangs and drug traffickers are increasingly encroaching on Ashaninka land and using the rivers in the Amazon and adjacent ...

Ceramic vessels reveal how social inequalities were also cooked into 19th-century Brazil

Fish, shellfish, maize, manioc, rice and even chicken eggs. Molecular residues preserved in more than 180 ceramic vessels ...
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For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

By Letícia Klein IBIRAMA-LA KLÃNÕ INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Zág, pronounced “zã,” is the Xokleng word for the Brazilian ...

Red Bull or Blue Bull? In This Brazilian Town, You Have to Choose.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a heated rivalry has split a town for a century. It’s got nothing to do with sports or ...
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A conflict over cattle in Brazil’s Amazon highlights tensions for Indigenous peoples

FORMOSO DO ARAGUAIA, Brazil (AP) — On a vast island in northern Brazil, an unusual debate about cattle and conservation is taking place. Federal authorities last year ordered the removal of herds from ...