Fernando Trujillo - Hope Songs In The Amazon

What happens when two friends in rural Australia take on the global hunger crisis? Meet Rob Houghton and Ken Dachi - a third-generation farmer and a multicultural advisor from Leeton, NSW - who turned a single conversation into Grain of Hope: a grassroots initiative shipping Aust ...  Show more

This week’s headlines include – a global milestone in ocean protection; Brazil’s new deforestation crackdown using satellite monitoring; major gains in women’s rights and maternal health; record renewable energy growth in the US and Europe; and a groundbreaking IVF breakthrough t ...  Show more

In the 1980s, an unlikely champion for protecting the Amazon rainforest emerges: Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and labor organizer from the remote Brazilian state of Acre. His shrewd tactics keep both cattle ranchers and big banks from clear-cutting the jungle. But his success ...

Gal Costa (1945-2022) was an iconic vocalist of Brazilian pop music. As one of the leading acts of the tropicalia movement in the late 1960s, Gal’s music reflected the social unrest of Brazilian youth under an oppressive military dictatorship. For Further Reading: Gal Costa Music ...  Show more

This week, we’re presenting Sound Influence: The Art and Soul of Puerto Rico.  

Oscar-nominated screenwriter and playwright Jos ...

Some people said it was created by Peruvian scientists, that it gorged on the blood of farm animals, that it was a monster. Many myths have grown up in Bolivia around the Paiche, one of the world’s largest scaled freshwater fish which is native to Amazonian rivers of Brazil and P ...  Show more