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 / ...

THE republics of South America have looked outward to the sea rather than in the direction of their immediate neighbors. In the first place, they are essentially producers of raw materials whose ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino urged member nations at the Mercosur Summit in Buenos Aires, to back the Río Indio ...

Amazon River: A Jungle Predator’s Paradise (image credits: pixabay) The Amazon River, winding through South America, is home to the fearsome black caiman, a close relative of the crocodile. The black ...

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 ...

A ‘participant observer’ of cultures Manvir Singh, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis, has always felt ...

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

A family of giant river otters was released into the Iberá National Park ... Giant otters are social animals and typically live in extended family structures. Endemic to South America, the giant otter ...

But ultimately, if the soybean crop continues to drop in South America, it’s going to drive some demand back to the U.S. on the export front in July, August, September timeframe.

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