It’s no happy accident the Amazon rain forest has so many fruit and nut trees. According to a new study, 20 different species of fruit and nut trees originally cultivated by green–thumbed Amazon ...
Indigenous representatives from all nine Amazon Basin countries, gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima this week, pressed ...
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Young members of an indigenous group from the Amazon region listen during a meeting with Pope Francis during a Jan. 19 meeting at Madre de Dios stadium in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. (CNS photo/Paul ...
Growing evidence suggests that economic inequality in a community harms the health of a person. Using panel data from a small-scale, preindustrial rural society, we test whether individual wealth rank ...
LIMA, Peru-Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil's Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Peru's Amazonian region of Yavari Mirim has long been known as home to some of the last tribal ...
Stephen Nugent has received funding from the University of London; Leverhulme Trust. Meanwhile, the National Geographic (partly responsible for the funding of the project) announced that the “Amazon ...
“The point of no return is not in the future; it is now.” Olivia Rosane is a freelance writer who focuses on environmental issues. Her work has appeared in EcoWatch, YES!, and Real Life Magazine.