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For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across ...

A strange peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may actually be the largest pyramid ever built in the ancient world. Known as Cerro El Cono, this massive, pyramid-shaped formation is cloaked ...

Global brands are driving commodity risk and deforestation through their supply chains—exposing themselves to growing legal, ...

“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal spoke to Julie Creswell at the New York Times about her reporting on the food dye supply chain, and the obstacles to substituting artificial dyes in foo ...

The Amazon has been warming since the 1980s, suffering 15 extreme droughts so far. See All Key Ideas MADEIRA RIVER, Brazil — While the Amazon Rainforest ... distribute food to local schools ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest ... when that isn’t the case, the food given to cows may be grown on destroyed rainforest land. The environmental ...