Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...

Seeing illegal gold mines despoil remote Ecuadorian forests helped me to understand what happened to Pittsburgh — and to ...

In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, far from active volcanic zones or geothermal hotspots, a river defies scientific expectations by reaching temperatures close to 100°C (212°F) — hot enough to boil ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...

Across Brazil’s Lower Tapajós region, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and civil-society allies are mobilizing to ...

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 ...

The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia’s only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that’s fueling a border dispute with ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war. Santa ...