The newly launched 'Pure Amazon' from high-end operator Abercrombie & Kent takes guests on the ultimate floating safari ...

The Mashco Piro have chosen to be cut off from the world for more than a century. They hunt with long bows and arrows, ...

Trees in the Peruvian Amazon are silently preserving the history of human activity, including the destructive impacts of gold ...

Where is home? Do we belong with our biological families or our chosen ones? And where might one find orange marmalade in the Amazon rainforest? In the third installment of the hit film series, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LIMA, Peru (AP) — A powerful magnitude 8.0 ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of ...

The Andean Community has ordered Peru to take immediate action against illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking. The ruling comes from the Andean Community, which includes Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, ...

For years, gold mining has been one of Peru’s most pressing environmental challenges, with illegal operations clearing the ...

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.