Halifax regional council has turned down a proposal to allow limited development in a Purcells Cove wilderness area. A motion to allow some development in the backlands was defeated in a tie vote ...

A MAJOR stretch of Guyana’s backlands is being transformed through an extensive utility corridor and infrastructural ...

A narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to ...

The first thing visitors notice about the sertao, Brazil's dry outback, is the heat: it seems enough to keep anyone focused on where their next drink's coming from. But local cowboys have a different ...

Back in the waning days of the Brazilian dictatorship, hundreds of thousands of citizens, including some of my friends, attended a huge pro-democracy demonstration in Sao Paulo. On that night’s ...