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 ...

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, ...

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

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

A research team from Munich has identified a previously unknown communication mechanism in harvestmen. Five closely related ...

With 30 of the world’s 32 climate types and resulting wealth of ingredients, Peru boasts four of the World’s Best 50 restaurants, including the top one.

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 ...

A researcher’s quest to preserve tracts of the Amazon basin leads him into wild adventure.

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

Friedrich, S., Schwager, M., Heß, M., Glaw, F. & Lehmann, T. Evidence for fluorescence-supported species recognition in syntopic harvestmen. Sci Rep 16, 2631 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026 ...

The Brevard Zoo has officially welcomed Jack, a 22-year-old Goeldi monkey, and his 9-year-old son Poe, marking the first time this rare primate species has joined Brevard Zoo’s animal family.

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...