Bolivia is marking December 21, the summer solstice south of the equator, in grand style...
Rodney Haring One Feather Consulting's recently announced partnership extends its employee assistance programs (EAP) and disease management services from North America’s 1,000 trib...
Made from the roasted leaves of the Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) that grew more than 300 miles away, researchers found evidence that inhabitants at Cahokia were enjoying caffeinat...
The piranha is a notorious eater of humans and anything else it can sink its teeth into...
What’s the size of a Smart car and has a shell that could be used as a kiddie pool? If you answered Carbonemys cofrinii , or “coal turtle,” you would be correct...
Presidents of 30 countries who met in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia for the Sixth Summit of the Americas from April 14 – 15, including president Barack Obama, could not agree on fu...
As 2011 opened, the mixed-race aboriginal group, comprised of descendants of fur-trading settlers and aboriginals, had declared 2011-2020 the Decade of the Métis Nation with the id...
Uncontacted But Not Unbowed: 'Arrow People' Guard the Rainforest; Book Review The advance of “civilization” has not been kind to indigenous people in Amazonia...
David Dudenhoefer
April 15, 2011
The BBC footage shot last year from a small plane over the rain forest of western Brazil resembles a scene from Avatar ...
By Sara Shahriari
April 05, 2011
When flying over Bolivia’s highlands, the flat brown plains dotted by small farms seem endless...

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