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.

On Oct. 7 in Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered ...

A South American trade bloc has ruled that Peru is failing to curb illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking ...

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.

Peru and Colombia on Friday committed to ensure navigability along the Amazon River, where a disputed island remains a point of contention between the two countries. The South American nations have ...

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.