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 ...

VAUPÉS, Colombia — The Vaupés River and its extensive network of waterways and lagoons in the southeastern Colombian department of the same name are integral to the Indigenous Macaquiño community, who ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Colombian chef Mauricio Velasco Castro, founder of Amazonico restaurant in Mocoa, Putumayo, has turned to the Amazon Rainforest for inspiration and ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Colombia and Brazil destroyed 19 illegal gold mining dredges in the Amazon rainforest which were producing about $1.5 million of the precious metal a month and polluting ...

Ironically, the peace pact that ended near six decades of civil war in Colombia has boded ill for the Amazon which covers two-thirds of the country’s forested area ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The upcoming Colombian presidential election between Sen. Iván Cepeda, an ally of President Gustavo Petro, and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, whom U.S. President Donald Trump has ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A military cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Monday in southwestern Colombia, causing an undetermined number of casualties, the country’s defense minister said. Defense ...