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 ...

The Yanomami are among the largest and most culturally rich Indigenous groups in the Amazon, yet their isolation has fueled ...

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read ...

In a hospital in Brazil’s Amazon, Yanomami children are dozing in blue hammocks. Some are suffering from pneumonia, others from malaria. At a hospital in the Brazilian Amazon, Yanomami children are ...

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 ...