Criminal groups behind are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of life, under ...

The Tsiino Hiiwiida: unveiling multiple dimensions of plant and fungal biodiversity of the Upper Rio Negro project will accelerate the discovery of plants and fungi in one of the least explored ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...

The U.S. has imposed a 25 percent tariff on Venezuelan oil in response to Nicolás Maduro’s refusal to take back deported Venezuelan migrants, and the tariff could lead to the regime’s ...

Located in the central part of the continent, Bolivia has a varied terrain spanning the Andes Mountains, the Atacama Desert and Amazon Basin rainforest. It is also home to Lake Titicaca, South America ...

The world witnessed a series of extreme climate events in 2024, from deadly floods across West Africa and South Asia, to widespread drought across South America ... and drought. The Amazon basin has ...

They will squeeze the last value from what remains — rushing gold sales, destroying the environment, especially in the Amazon basin ... lived and worked in Latin America for more than 20 ...

Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia's eastern lowlands.