In the spirit of summer travel, we’ve asked some of our writers living outside New York City to share a few of their favorite ...

By Mongabay.com Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are working to revive populations of the aguaje palm tree, commercially valued for its fruits, by shifting to more sustainable harvesting ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

All tree leaves have an outer layer called the epidermis, which can also be used in the identification process. This leaf "skin" always has a waxy cover called the cuticle and varies in thickness.

The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, ...

Farm Sanctuary in Peru is hosting vegan chocolate tasting events to raise funds and awareness for its mission to rescue and ...

High in the cloud-wrapped peaks of the Cordillera de Huancabamba, where the Andes dip and twist into isolated ridges, a team ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

The find was made by workers from gas company Calidda in the Puente Piedra district of northern Lima. The workers first found ...

Tree root systems are seldom on the minds of forest owners, tree planters, and general dendrophiles. Roots are rarely exposed, and so misconceptions about how they grow and function can influence ...

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into ...