Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and ...

At least 12 people, including three children, died Monday when a landslide sank two boats docked at a river port in central ...

Rescue efforts in Peru's central Ucayali region are being hindered by strong currents on the river, one official said.

Landslide sinks two boats in Peru’s Ucayali region, killing at least 12 and leaving dozens missing as rescuers battle fast ...

When the price of gold skyrocketed, illegal miners flooded into the country's Amazon basin, eager to find even the tiniest bits of the precious... Who Did This To Peru's Jungle? Gold has been a ...

The river turtles are considered "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and have for many years been killed for human consumption, or kept as pets. The turtles carry the ...

LIMA, Peru — An American explorer says an ancient, pre-Incan metropolis discovered by his father in Peru’s remote cloud forest on an earlier expedition has been plundered by tomb robbers. Sean Savoy, ...

After nearly twenty years of discussion, the Peruvian government has moved to establish a new Indigenous reserve for “uncontacted peoples” deep in the Amazon rainforest. Yavarí Tapiche Indigenous ...

An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, explorers said on Tuesday. U.S. and Peruvian ...