The diminutive woman with a white feather headdress stood on the stage of the majestic colonial theater in Brazil’s Amazon on Monday and addressed the crowd. The woman, Minister of Indigenous People Sonia Guajajara, declared the day “the milestone of Indigenous participation,”
There are now more golden lion tamarins bounding between branches in the Brazilian rainforest than at any time since efforts to save the species started in the 1970s, a new survey reveals. Once on the brink of extinction, with only about 200
China’s video game player population has reached a new milestone, surging to a record 668 million, according to a government-run game industry association’s announcement on Thursday. This significant growth comes as the world’s largest gaming market shows signs of recovery following a
Poland’s population has shrunk again to just under 37.7 million in June despite returning emigrants, the state statistical office said Tuesday. A preliminary report by the Statistics Poland office says there were around 130,000 Poles fewer in the European Union country at
A vampiric, ray-finned fish is reportedly startling fishermen and tourists in the Great Lakes, but an aquatic wildlife organization says it has gotten the population under control despite recent sightings. Sea lampreys, an eel-like parasitic fish that’s native to the Northern Hemisphere,
A Donald Trump rally attracted a crowd at least five times the size of the host city’s population, police have said. The former POTUS was speaking to thousands of supporters that gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city ahead
Large numbers of refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia’s war fueled a 1.3% rise in Germany’s population last year, helping push up the number of inhabitants in the European Union’s most populous country to more than 84.4 million, official statistics showed Tuesday. Germany’s
Some 11% of Indians are diabetic, a government study found, adding that diabetes, hypertension and obesity are much more common in India than previously estimated. The study of more than 113,000 people also found that around 15% of Indians were pre-diabetic and
The United Nations warns that Syria’s 12-year civil war has produced a dire degree of “humanitarian stress” with millions in need of help. A U.N. appeal for $5.4 billion that would aid more than 14 million people in Syria is reported as
Mithilesh Chaudhary, 21, coughs weakly as he struggles to his feet after spending the night outside the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. “We have been sleeping on the footpath for two nights,” said his grandfather Bhim