By Rhett Ayers Butler The Amazon is often treated as a single forest, yet the risks its people face from extreme weather vary ...

Learn why the Amazon is critical for our planet and how WWF is working to protect its forests, rivers, and wildlife from growing threats.

The Andes mountain range, stretching over 8,900 kilometers along South America's western edge, serves as the continent's ...

The appropriation of ancestral knowledge has a name: biopiracy. In this report, we examine the emblematic case of sacha inchi ...

There are 1,248 locations on the World Heritage List, from ancient cities to natural wonders. Visiting them is growing in ...

Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry.

Having studied the healing plants and peoples of tropical South America for well over four decades, I am often asked, “What ...

The Abercrombie & Kent Pure Amazon River Cruise offers luxury accommodations, local cuisine, wildlife excursions, and ...

Near a remote bend of the Patoyacu River in Peru's northern Amazon, Wilmer Macusi stood atop a rusty pipeline cutting through ...

Peru-focused junior makes 'difficult decision' as it grapples with best solution to further exploit core Bretana oilfield ...

In an interview that aired Tuesday on Fox News, Trump said he intended to go through with his threat to sue the BBC. The ...

Built in Birkenhead in 1904, the ship served in the Peruvian navy’s Amazon flotilla and has been on show at a museum since 2015. On the first day of her visit, the duchess met with women from the ...