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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the Orinoco River Basin straddling Venezuela and Colombia, biodiversity and agriculture are at odds. Cattle ranching is one of the leading causes of deforestation in Colombia’s Orinoquía ...

ABSTRACT The Orinoco River basin, ranked as South America’s third-largest catchment, is pivotal in contributing to the Atlantic Ocean’s water volume. This study provides a comprehensive update on the ...