About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru on Tuesday when he accused it of ...

Two significant criminal enterprises are believed to have been disrupted, while the value of all the seizures totals $64 ...

Peru is a diverse travel destination in South America–from the highlands of the Andes to the tropical Amazon basin, it offers ...

The Amazon Basin has also been widely affected by record wildfires – more than 55.3 million acres burned between January and September 2024 in Brazil alone – as well as extreme heat and ...

Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes ...

PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru—Pope Francis travelled deep into the Amazon rainforest Friday demanding an end to the relentless exploitation of its timber, gas and gold and recognition of its Indigenous ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin have been affected by “dangerous levels” of water scarcity and drought in three countries, according to the United Nations. The record-breaking ...