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, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

There are nearly 90 unique tarantula species in Peru, ranging from nine-inch giants to tarantulas named after Star Wars ...

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

Most proven reserves are located in the Orinoco Oil Belt, stretching over 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...