Attracted by bait, sea turtles off the coast of southern Peru often get caught on fishing hooks intended for mahi-mahi.

The journalist should not be part of the story.” Jonathan Watts, British journalist based in Brazil, recalls the words of ...

The movie Jaws, released on June 20, 1975, was one of the very first Hollywood summer blockbusters, and remains one of the ...

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As Linda Alvarado, a young Indigenous Yine leader, travels through the forest in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, she ...

In response to rising human-elephant conflicts, Bangladesh is planning to declare the elephant habitats in its northeastern ...

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect ...

For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage ...

A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups.

In 2024, six Latin American countries were in the top 10 nations with the highest loss of tropical primary forest, according ...