Colombian Senator Gloria Florez Schneider, a member of the Pacto Historico political coalition, which brings together progressive leftist movements, led the official delegation from that country ...

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

Conflicts over land and territory will likely proliferate as the accelerating climate crisis collides with rising ...

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

Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

In a startling revelation that challenges long-held beliefs about human migration and cultural evolution, archaeologists have ...

Former Presidents Bush and Obama, along with U2's Bono, console USAID employees as the agency is shuttered amid Trump ...

Around the world: Nepal builds cable cars through sacred peaks; Māori health boards warn of silencing under new reforms; Indigenous filmmakers break barriers and reclaim Canadian screens; Panama ...

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

The story of Astrid Puentes Riaño is rooted in the soil of Colombia. Born in Bogotá to a family with campesino roots, her ...

Every year around the world, people and their communities are murdered, disappeared and attacked for trying to protect their ...

Today, when the sun hits the mountain just right, the fuselage from Grand Teton National Park’s first plane crash glints in the sun. And the few experienced climbers who attempt to summit the peak ...