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From Rio's granite peaks to Ilha Grande's emerald anchorages, Brazil's coastline is a pure paradise of rhythm and rainforest.

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The tires crunched over the red earth as we approached Akagera National Park, and the instant smell of wet grass and dust brought a childhood memory. I was back in Primary Six, thinking of the class ...

As summer heats up in Australia and more people go swimming, concerns about sharks inevitably rise. But what is the real ...

The pioneering primatologist destroyed the myth of gorillas as savage brutes before being killed by human hands, 40 years ago this month.

The United States government called her one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists. Assata Shakur called herself a ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...