Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

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 ...

Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon who have only recently come into contact with the outside world have created their ...

Top of the line are two Villas Inkaterra (3,154 square feet), which come with 24-hour private butler service. The Villas ...

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

A new report by the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center has ...

Colombia’s oil industry faces growing outrage over decades of environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon ...

Brazil is home to the world’s largest concentration of uncontacted and isolated Indigenous communities. Although the ...

A bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 people dead and 48 injured, ...

South America's mining landscape demonstrates that successful resource development requires more than geological potential.