The mystical relationship between the Indigenous communities of the northern Peruvian Amazon and the Marañón River is at the ...

"I Am the Nature" poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature through the eyes of the Indigenous Achuar people.

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian ...

Deep inside the Amazon rainforest, floating and stilted communities have resided alongside the Amazon River for thousands of years, developing a ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her will.

The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

President Donald Trump's freezing of development aid has quickly paralyzed numerous programs in Latin America that rely on US ...