Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

Related: The Amazon rainforest is officially creating more greenhouse gases than it is absorbing ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru by accusing it of fully annexing ...

The Amazon River is more than just the largest river by discharge on Earth,it's a living, breathing force of nature that ...

Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.

Researchers have yielded surprising results from the longest experiment ever done, in the Amazon rainforest, after 24 years.

Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, ...

South America’s Amazon contains nearly a third of all the tropical rainforests left on Earth. Despite covering only around 1% of the planet’s surface, the Amazon rainforest is home to 10% of all the ...

The big news this spring is AmaWaterways' first cruises in Colombia. But it is not the only line with South America on its mind.

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...

California’s future is closely tied to the Amazon’s — the state relies on the rainforest’s role in climate regulation and rainfall, Koenig said, warning that continued Amazon crude imports ...