One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires contributing the most to the destruction of native dry forests. The problem ...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

First a river ran blood red. The outbreak comes a week after a stream running through a town near Buenos Aires turned blood ...

The South American sea lion is prevalent along the coast of Peru, around the southern Cape Horn, up along Argentina, and then ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Humpback whales tend to be pretty low on the list of animals you have to worry about encountering if you're out in the open ocean. However, one guy in ...

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving ...

A journalist from California is caught in the wildfires in Patagonia, Argentina, at the same time L.A. faces the same challenges. Here's what she's learned.

The president is taking a chainsaw to our public health infrastructure—and people will die as a result.

After years of planning and collaboration, the first phase of relocating primates from the CEMIC Bioterium in Argentina has been completed. The animals are now safely housed at The Hidden ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...