Brazil

Gallery: Humans come in all shapes, sizes — and colors

“It has been 128 years since the last country in the world abolished slavery and 53 years since Martin Luther King pronounced his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech,” says Brazilian artist...

The largest river on Earth is invisible — and airborne

On a typical sunny day in the Amazon, 20 billion metric tons of water flow upward through the trees and pour into the air, an invisible river that flows through the sky across a...

Gallery: Meet the tapir, South America’s cutest prehistoric animal

Chances are, you don’t know much about tapirs. Don’t feel bad; neither do scientists. Even though tapirs are the largest land mammals in South America, known as “gardeners of th...