This week brings something new — an Armchair Traveler series I’m exploring for 2026. Take a mini-trip with me as we venture in a literary way to a new country each month. Grab your virtual passport, b ...

Peru is located on the Pacific coast of South America, just south of the equator. It is considered one of the most ...

More than 12,500 extreme climate events were registered in the Amazon biome between 2013 and 2023, according to a recent ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

Most proven reserves are located in the Orinoco Oil Belt, stretching over 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Peru's interim President José Jerí is facing scrutiny for unregistered meetings with two Chinese business owners ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

Surveys by the Pew Research Center find the Catholic population in Latin American countries has shrunk over the last decade.

The trial for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader is due to start Tuesday, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators ...

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender BOGOTA, Colombia -- The trial ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties Miryan Delgado/Amazon Research Internacional Researchers are working to save stingless ...