An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing ...

Paddington's in Peru! Here's what to pack and what to expect for your Amazon River cruise in Peru (and why you might not want to pay the premium for a balcony cabin).

T he Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...

Peru is an ecological marvel, with much of its biodiversity stemming from the Amazon River that runs through it. Peru is one of the most geographically and biologically diverse countries in the ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River. In the video, the dolphin ...

Scientists discovered new fish species. These include a blob-headed catfish, a tiny pipehorse, and three pacu species.

They used satellite technology to map the river. For this exploration, they traveled the Amazon through Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Yuri says it's almost 7,000 kilometers long — that's more than ...

We are giving free rein to illegal loggers, to coca plant growers", said Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon river. Peru and Colombia are the ...

The Amazon river is one of the longest in the world ... Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.

Indigenous Leader in Peru Says Illegal Miners Use Children as 'Human Shields' in the Amazon LIMA (Reuters ... they use to extract the gold from the river. Government officials were not immediately ...

The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as “human shields” in the Amazon.