Beneath a tree where a sloth sleeps, juvenile caimans lurk in the long grasses. The air is thick with the sound of an ...

Machu Picchu has long been the symbol of Peru, but this South American nation is far more than its most famous Inca landmark.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and ...

Researchers have uncovered extensive pre-Hispanic settlements hidden beneath the waters and vegetation of Bolivia's Great Tectonic Lakes. Using advanced LiDAR technology and collaborative fieldwork ...

Credit: Joedi Porto/Paulo Wilker/Antonio Humberto/State Secretariat for Animal Protection/Cover Images A jaguar rescued from the middle of the Rio Negro after being shot in the head in October has ...

Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and ...

Fueled by açaí flowers, a bee's resin once used for war wounds is now evolving as a new ingredient for cosmetics.

Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United ...

Olegario Sánchez Pinto, 74, wakes up at 7 a.m. every day to complete all the tasks he must perform as a member of the ...

High above the forest floor, the Amazon’s newest thoroughfares are not branches or lianas but human-built walkways, and the ...

An assessment of the food hunted across the Amazon rainforest reveals its crucial role and how human pressures, particularly ...

This year’s U.N. climate negotiations were seen by activists as a letdown. But a Times reporter found some encouraging signs ...