Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp forest that’s key to ...

Peruvian Agriculture Minister Angel Manero on Monday announced some $24 billion in largely public-private projects to improve ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

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A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

Illegal gold mining has devastated Peru’s rainforest, destroying vast areas and endangering human health. Mercury used in ...

Set in the Amazon rainforest, “Paddington in Peru” follows Paddington the bear as he embarks on a whirlwind journey to find ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

Researcher Japhy Wilson tells The Conversation Weekly podcast the surreal story of what happened in one Peruvian city in the ...

In Peru, Colombia and Ecuador ... In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous lands. The country’s Congress and the ...

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into ...