The people of Bajo Chiquito grew rich catering to migrants. Here's how the village in Panama is adapting to life without them ― and their cash.

A rocky stretch of the Tocantins River stands in the way of expanding agribusiness, so Brazil wants to blast it. Locals ...

Battle over oil project that has raised hopes and concern looms large as COP30, the annual UN climate conference, begins in ...

Some 30 years ago, Apolo Heringer, a Brazilian public health doctor, was participating in a night fishing trip with residents ...

Rubber tapper Manoel Magno, 71, walks through the jungle surrounding his house on the river island of Cotijuba in the Amazon, ...

When life in their native Venezuela became too much of a struggle, Catherine Negrin and her family upped sticks and moved ...

A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The ...

On the balmy shores of Bahia, surfers have become obsessed with Itacare, one of the world's best new beach getaways.

As a fashion model and long-reigning Victoria’s Secret Angel, Erechim, Brazil–born Alessandra Ambrosio has traveled the globe ...

Decades of neglect turned out to be a blessing for the town of Paraty, and its unspoiled colonial buildings are now the ...