More than 100 indigenous activists in Peru´s Amazon occupied infrastructure belonging to the state-run Petroperú pipeline, the company said on Tuesday, demanding improved social benefits and health ...

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

A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said on Thursday.

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

Peruvian authorities are backing a highway project that would cut through 5,400 hectares (more than 13,300 acres) of the ...