The 2024 extreme and historical drought that hit the Amazon exposed a chronic problem: access to drinking water and sanitation in Indigenous lands, where only a third of households have proper ...

What? When you roll an r, that's a trill. What's a bilabial trill? When you "roll" a b or a p. Who does that? Speakers of a few languages in Africa (Kom, Ngwe), Indonesia and New Guinea (Kele ...

The Pirahã Ianguage, spoken by the I Pirahã people of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, is unique in that it has no words for specific numbers. Instead of numerical terms, they use relative quantity ...

Mariazinha Baré spent her childhood bathing and playing in the Upper Negro River. Born and raised on the triple border where Brazil meets Colombia and Venezuela, she is now worried about the ...

Up until a generation or two ago, the majority of Japan’s married women were full-time homemakers. That’s no longer the norm, though, with modern brides, and many mothers too, remaining in the ...