Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This ‘treehouse classroom’ may be one of the world’s most extreme educational spaces. Built over 100-feet up in the Amazon ...

Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, advancing along remote rivers and into Indigenous territories as experts warn of a widening environmental and public health crises ...

Illegal gold mining is expanding into new regions of Peru's Amazon, threatening environmental integrity and community health, according to experts and Indigenous leaders.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This June 2024 photo provided by Survival International shows members of the Mashco Piro along Las Piedras River in the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from ...

LIMA, June 7 (Reuters) - A group of indigenous protesters in Peru's remote Amazon region attacked two oil tankers with gasoline bombs apparently because they are angry about changes by the government ...