Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling ...

Mercury air pollution in parts of Madre de Dios is more than 5.5 times higher than the WHO's safety levels. The investigation uncovered a network involving organized crime groups allegedly centered ...

From a fresh-fish program on Holland America Line to a Tundra to Table experience in the Arctic with Quark Expeditions, these ...

To reach the animals, researchers broke open the rocks “with a hammer and pickaxe.” Take a look at what they found.

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

Watching films on Amazon has always been a case of hunting for freebies, while mostly resigning oneself to coughing up the ...

A bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region has overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, leaving at least 18 ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.

"I knew the global market for ivory carvings and statues was causing destruction. But seeing a baby elephant hacked to pieces ...

Scientists have developed a drone-based counting method that corrected major errors in traditional wildlife surveys. Researchers from the University of Florida have created a more precise method for ...