The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...

Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp forest that’s key to ...

Applied Food Sciences ( AFS) is proud to receive the Sello Chakra (Chakra Seal), a certification from the Amazonian Kichwa communities of Ecuador, in recognition of its integral role in sourcing raw ...

COP ignores reality on the ground in Latin America and wrongly assumes governments are key drivers of climate policies ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

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A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

Illegal gold mining has devastated Peru’s rainforest, destroying vast areas and endangering human health. Mercury used in ...

Fossilized teeth found in Peru suggest monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America 30 million years ago, ...

In late December Peru’s government declared a 90-day ... providing the capital that drives the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.” After publication, Petroperú said it was “important ...

Set in the Amazon rainforest, “Paddington in Peru” follows Paddington the bear as he embarks on a whirlwind journey to find ...