BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries ...

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.

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

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 ...

Businesses and boats crowd the riverbank on an island in the Amazon on the border with Brazil, Peru and Colombia. (EPA Images pic) Peru and Colombia on Friday committed to ensure navigability along ...

However, no evidence indicates that Paul Rosolie passed away or was attacked by a jaguar recently. The fabricated post about ...

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

The initiative began in Ecuador's Amazon and has since expanded to Brazil, Peru, Suriname, and even the Solomon Islands. Each ...

In Colombia’s Orinoco River, levels in some dolphins have reached as ... have found high mercury exposure among Indigenous peoples across the Amazon, including in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Suriname and ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...