In the Yungas, coca leaf is everywhere, it's an ancestral cultivation in Bolivia but also used to make cocaine. This plant is lucrative, and it became a monoculture which is causing trees to vanish.
Since 2017, the photographer, who now lives in Europe, documents the daily lives of women in the detention centers of her native country.
National politics have local implications in Buenos Aires, where activists are divided on a plan to upgrade the city’s most iconic informal settlement.
A bird in the Amazon has shattered the record for the loudest call to be recorded, reaching the same volume as a pneumatic drill.
A paper published Monday in the journal Current Biology identifies the white bellbird as the world's loudest bird.
The Chocóan Rainforest is one of the last coastal rainforests left on earth with a huge range of diversity. Participatory conservation is key to efforts to its preservation.
In the depths of the Amazon, a Catholic nun confronts a reality with few priests, a wave of evangelical preachers—and deforestation. Meanwhile in Rome, the Pope holds a special Synod on the region.
In 2009, Walmart, Nike and other global companies vowed to stop buying beef and leather from Brazilian companies operating in the Amazon.
Venezuelan caminantes leave their country with everything they own on their backs in the hopes of a finding better future. What conditions do they face once they arrive on the roads of Colombia?
Brazil's triple border with Bolivia and Peru is a good picture of what has been pointed out as one of the most critical moments for the survival of the world's most important rainforest.
Since 1988, the rights of Indigenous people in Brazil have been entitled to protection under the constitution. Yet, their reality tells a different story.
It isn't just Bolsonaro and the fires. Hydroelectric dams in the Amazon are submerging millions of trees, transforming huge carbon sinks into sources of planet-warming gases.
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