What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

A motorcycle adventure through the epic Canon del Pato in Peru, arguably the best motorcycle ride in Peru but certainly one of the most breathtaking, and dangerous. With the road only one lane wide ...

Dengue is becoming a bigger challenge in many parts of the world, including Latin America, as the factors that influence mosquito-borne disease continue to shift. McCord noted that in the Amazon and ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, there is a real river that steams like a cauldron and reaches temperatures above 90°C. It is so hot that falling into the wrong section can cause severe burns in seconds, ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

“In a community-based conservation system, if everything is built correctly, then not only is there no overhunting, there is ...

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem.

Visiting Peru was an 11-day family adventure. After taking a three-night cruise on the Amazon River and embarking on jungle ...

This week brings something new — an Armchair Traveler series I’m exploring for 2026. Take a mini-trip with me as we venture in a literary way to a new country each month. Grab your virtual passport, b ...

Peru is located on the Pacific coast of South America, just south of the equator. It is considered one of the most ...

More than 12,500 extreme climate events were registered in the Amazon biome between 2013 and 2023, according to a recent study. But many more events were never recorded, as some Amazonian countries ...