Miguel Guimaraes, a Shipibo-Konibo leader, has spent his life protesting palm oil plantations and other agribusiness ventures ...

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

A peculiar peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may not just be a geological ... El Cono (meaning Cone Hill), and is located in Peru’s Sierra del Divisor National Park.

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

“The face of humanity ... Case in point: In January 2018 Peru’s Congress passed a controversial law declaring the construction of roads in remote parts of the Amazon to be “of priority ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected ...

Armed men hijacked a tourist boat in the Amazon rainforest in Peru, robbed all 14 people on board and forced them to empty their bank accounts via mobile apps, according to one of the victims ...