Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

There was the pool furniture in the background. There were the tropical drinks, which looked to be margaritas garnished with cherries. And then there were the deported prisoner and the American ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects ...

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera ...

American thinking of visiting Colombia should reconsider their travel plans, the U.S. Department of State advised on Thursday. The risk of encountering crime, terrorism, civil unrest and ...

Errol was a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean Friday evening Australian Western Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this doesn’t hurt—and might even be a good thing. Scientists have long ...

Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supplies for 90 million people, with near-total ice loss possible by 2100 unless ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tropical fish, specifically several species of Halichoeres wrasses, have been observed using tools, challenging the notion that tool use is exclusive to mammals ...

Decades of contamination from the Pasco mining district upstream, hydroelectric power operations, the discharge of urban wastewater, and the overexploitation ... only in the Andes of Junín ...

This story has been updated with additional information. ASHEVILLE - On the six-month milestone marking Tropical Storm Helene's arrival in Western North Carolina, ABC's "Good Morning America" will ...