There’s a chance the gold ring on your finger or the chain around your neck has a link to the prolific destruction of the ...

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

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.” – Carl ...

Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...

Scientists have identified more than two dozen previouslyunknown fish species in Peru and the Amazon Basin, uncovering a fascinating array of aquatic life. Among the discoveries are a blob-headed ...

The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on ...

LIMA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - 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 ...

New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...

Indigenous Leader in Peru Says Illegal Miners Use Children as 'Human Shields' in the Amazon LIMA (Reuters) - The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a ...