A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of poisonous frog—brightly colored and measuring just a few millimeters—in the ...

Forming sustainable research partnerships with Indigenous peoples requires trust and mutual benefit, say microbiome ...

Peru’s Indigenous Shawi people continue to contest a plan to build a highway through their territory in the country’s ...

The Amazon has been called a “tree of rivers” – multi-branched, intricate, connected – and in many ways, a cruise is the only way to really explore it.

What comes to mind when folks think Peru is the historic Inca Machu Picchu. It certainly is a site to behold, but now they ...

It’s no secret that Peruvian food consistently receives global recognition, food lovers come from all over the world to try ...

Road projects in the Amazon could drive deforestation of millions of hectares over the next 20 years, environmental researchers said in a report on Thursday.

On October 10, Peru’s deeply unpopular congress impeached the country’s even more unpopular President Dina Boluarte, who ...

Mining concessions and illegal mining operations overlap more than a fifth of indigenous land in the Amazon, causing higher deforestation rates, said a report published on Wednesday.

Fears Amazon is in ‘delicate situation’ over rising mercury pollution - One figure stressed that health risks are ...

The Andean Community has ruled against Peru for not addressing illegal gold mining and mercury use, threatening Amazon rivers ...