A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator gains legal standing—and reshapes conservation.

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five ...

In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as ...

Giant Amazon tree Drypetes oliveri, towering 115 feet, was discovered after 40 years, with only a few surviving in Peru.

Rising above the Peruvian rainforest, El Cono del Divisor has sparked debate among researchers and enthusiasts. Some believe it’s a manmade pyramid three times taller than Giza’s, while others ...

The two-lane Interoceanic Highway climbs from the humid flatlands of Peru’s Amazon rainforest upward toward the famed Incan city of Cuzco. Along the way, it serpentines across rivers, through clouds, ...

A canopy walkway at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (ACTS) Field Station in the Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve, located 40 miles outside of Iquitos, Peru. Look up in the woods and you ...