"We condemn the murder of environmental defender Hipólito Quispe Huamán in Madre de Dios, another victim of the growing ...

With a multitude of bars, restaurants, activities and affordable housing, this Chester County town has been on the rise for years.

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

When negotiators meet in Belem for November’s United Nations climate summit, they will confront the Amazon’s deforestation and poverty rather than the luxury settings of past talks.Seth Borenstein ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

Indigenous Nasa children in Colombia's southwest region are being trained how to protect land their people have reclaimed ...

Mercury smuggling by Mexican cartels is contaminating rivers and threatening Indigenous communities all over Latin America, a ...

An environmental activist campaigning against the destruction of the Amazon was shot and killed in the Peruvian jungle, local ...

Hipolito Quispehuaman was killed Saturday night in an Amazonian area of Peru, where attacks against environmental activists ...

Explore Peru’s varied landscapes in stunning 4K, from the towering Andes and Amazon rainforest to coastal deserts and highland valleys. This visual journey highlights the country’s diverse geography ...

A Malaysian dictator's 1985 blueprint for forest theft—dissolve oversight, pocket billions—spread from Borneo to Brazil to the Congo. Forty years later, his machine is still running on three ...