Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest. It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from ...

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

In the southern reaches of the Amazon rainforest, mostly over rock formations that geologists ... forest height affect forest resilience in the face of drought. For trees with access to shallow ...

A strange peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may actually be the largest ... The 1,310-foot-tall, pyramid-shaped hill sits in Peru’s Sierra del Divisor National Park, near the Ucayali ...

Groups backing a basic-income trial in Peru are hoping that unconditional payments to Indigenous communities will help preserve the Amazon rainforest ... communities face a lot of challenges ...

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

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally ... protect nearly 5 million acres of rainforest within national parks in Ecuador. In Peru, they’re going to dismantle the ...

LONDON -- Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera ... Yine village of Monte Salvado, in southeast Peru. “In a separate incident, another group ...