Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular ...

By Maxwell Radwin Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp ...

Applied Food Sciences is proud to receive the Sello Chakra (Chakra Seal), a certification from the Amazonian Kichwa ...

COP ignores reality on the ground in Latin America and wrongly assumes governments are key drivers of climate policies ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

Sister Susan Francois and other faith-based investors won an SEC case, pushing banks to confront their role in fossil fuel ...

A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

Illegal gold mining has devastated Peru’s rainforest, destroying vast areas and endangering human health. Mercury used in ...

Researchers found four Rio Santa Rosa mushroom tongue salamanders in 2022 — four decades after the distinctive species was first documented.

Fossilized teeth found in Peru suggest monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America 30 million years ago, ...

Set in the Amazon rainforest, “Paddington in Peru” follows Paddington the bear as he embarks on a whirlwind journey to find ...