LETICIA, Colombia — The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia's only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that's fueling a border ...

Colombia is among the most dangerous countries for environmental defenders. Yet here, women stand as frontline defenders of both nature and culture. Mongabay is documenting the women protecting ...

A researcher in Colombia has been investigating the impact that women have had in the Amazon region since the signing of the peace deal with the FARC guerrillas in 2016. Since then, women-led social, ...

In this handout photo released on June 9, 2023, by the Colombian Presidency, members of the army attend to four Indigenous children who were found alive after spending more than a month lost in the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The lungs of a planet—the Amazon rainforest—continue to be ravaged by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro gives a statement during a forum on democracy and multilateralism at La Moneda palace in ...

LETICIA – Marciano Flores stood knee-deep in the Amazon River with the rest of his crew, ready to haul in a giant net as a man in a canoe circled in an attempt to drive fish their way. At 69, after a ...

The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia’s only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that’s fueling a border dispute with ...