The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...

Crossing into Bolivia was seamless, and our new tour director, Hector, took us to Copacabana on the Bolivian side of Lake ...

Maloca is the name given to the houses where indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest live, settled in regions of the ...

The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...

Since May, blazes have ravaged forests and savannas across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru.

Nearly a decade ago, Juan Julio Durand co-founded Junglekeepers in Peru with a simple yet ambitious goal: to protect the ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

According to the Ministry of Labor and Employment, 3,190 workers being held captive were rescued throughout the country in ...

In 1974, John Blashford-Snell set off for Zaire for a 2,700 mile expedition and created a legacy that is still being felt today ...

In late September 2024, Morales led thousands of his followers on a protest march to Bolivia’s capital city, La Paz, to “save” Bolivia from his successor. More recently, Morales has accused the ...

In Brazil´s Amazonas state, almost 6,000 riverine dwellers authorized to fish have reported a significant drop in production ...

As the COP29 climate talks started Monday in Azerbaijan, an Indigenous leader half a world away is literally towering over Brazil with a warning about the fate of the Amazon rainforest.