The world's largest isolated tribe reappears in the Peruvian Amazon as illegal logging increases the risk of contact and ...

In southern Peru, more than 400 kilometers from Lima and near the Pacific Ocean, the Nazca culture emerged, a civilization that flourished in that area between 700 BC and 200 AD. This culture created ...

Seeking to consolidate a strategic partnership focused on sustainable tourism, cultural preservation, and environmental protection, the Provincial Municipality of Lamas signed an agreement with the ...

New data show Peru has the Amazon’s largest oil and gas footprint and most lease blocks in rainforest areas overlap ...

What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

Dengue is becoming a bigger challenge in many parts of the world, including Latin America, as the factors that influence mosquito-borne disease continue to shift. McCord noted that in the Amazon and ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, there is a real river that steams like a cauldron and reaches temperatures above 90°C. It is so hot that falling into the wrong section can cause severe burns in seconds, ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

“In a community-based conservation system, if everything is built correctly, then not only is there no overhunting, there is ...

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem.

Visiting Peru was an 11-day family adventure. After taking a three-night cruise on the Amazon River and embarking on jungle ...