In a landmark advisory opinion Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights linked governments’ human rights ...

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

I went on the river for money, I sold my rotten shack / For a rusty tanker leaking oil, and the burning sun was on my back / ...

Many snakes do not lay eggs. They give birth to live young. This helps them survive in harsh environments. Boa constrictors ...

Costa Rica is no stranger to drug smuggling incidents, but on May 22, 2025, police in the Central American country ...

Bright colours in the wild usually mean one thing– danger. And for some frogs, those colours are their way of warning others to stay away. These small, colourful frogs may look adorable, but their ...

The sudden surge of the Oropouche virus in 2023, infecting 23,000 people, has raised concerns about a potential large-scale ...

In Colombia’s Middle Magdalena region, a patchwork of forest corridors is linking up isolated populations of the critically ...

I finally attended my first-ever Rainforest World Music Festival and it was simply amazing! Here's everything I did there!

An investigative report by Brazilian non-profit Repórter Brasil, with support from Coffee Watch, exposes widespread labor ...

Introduction The Llanos Orientales in Colombia and the Orinoco Llanos in Venezuela, known as the Llanos of the Orinoquia ecoregion, represent the second-largest Neotropical savanna ecosystem covering ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the ...