Far from smoothie bars and powdered sachets, these wild Amazonian juices are pulped just hours after picking – making them ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

What one British backpacker’s terrifying experience reveals about the hidden dangers—and unexpected humanity—of traveling ...

Peru has acknowledged that miners operating in an area once protected around the famed Nazca Lines can now begin the process ...

Scientists in a new study have found that gold mining in South America makes restoration of the Amazon rainforest impossible.

The Culture Ministry of Peru has cut roughly half of the protected area surrounding the Nazca Lines, a move that ...

In The Spirit of the Rainforest, Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza weaves indigenous wisdom with scientific discovery in an ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining - not just because the soil is damaged from toxic metals ...

Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

Peru has joined Brazil and China's transcontinental railroad project to connect the Pacific coast with the Ocean across South ...