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

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 / ...

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 ...

He arrived at the Venezuelan port of Cumana on July 16, 1799, and from there headed inland, along the Orinoco river, to the northernmost reaches of the Amazon basin before heading back out to the ...

Orinoco crocodiles – some of the largest living reptiles in the world – do not thrive in their South American river habitat as they once did. Watch to learn more about the efforts to save them.

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 ...

Criminal organizations behind environmental crimes and other illicit economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of ...

Scientists have unlocked the mysteries behind nine rivers and lakes in North and South America that seem to "defy the rules of hydrology." In a paper published in Water Resource Research ...

Hypostominae is broadly distributed throughout cis-Andean South America from the Parana basin northward, and throughout trans-Andean drainages from the Tumbes basin in northern Peru to the Terraba ...