A global mercury summit in Geneva has faced criticism from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to act on mercury ...

Fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon shows that Indigenous communities shaped and sustained complex productive wetlands for more ...

Parties to the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury met this week to discuss illegal trade, gold-mining pollution, and other ...

Come join us for an epic travel adventure in the Peruvian Amazon. While staying at the Treehouse Lodge in the Amazon rain ...

Abercrombie & Kent's Pure Amazon riverboat has begun luxury cruises on the Peruvian Amazon, offering itineraries with ...

Peruvian indigenous groups equipped with remote sensing technology and satellite-based alerts have been helping to track and ...

Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure.

Pure Amazon, an A&K Sanctuary, has commenced sailing down the Amazon through Peru's vast Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve.

The Discovery That Changed Climate Science The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the ...

Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

Indigenous communities on the remote border between Peru and Brazil are alarmed over the growing presence of Brazil's Comando ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...