Insufficient rainfall in 2023-2024 has taken a toll on South America’s rivers and groundwater and upended daily life in ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river ...

Map of South America showing the change in the number ... the Amazon rainforest in most of its nine-country span; the border between Venezuela and Colombia; the Gran Chaco, the second-largest ...

For immigrants from places like Cuba and Venezuela, symbols like the raised fist and even the term "progressive" evoke memories of authoritarian regimes they'd rather soon forget.

With cartels vying for control of the area, aid groups are struggling to help thousands trapped by US and Mexican migration ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

Cooler Pacific ocean temperatures could bring wetter conditions in the north and drier in the south and the potential for ...

Most of the Pan Amazonian population consists of immigrants or their descendants. They arrived over centuries, motivated by ...

It was previously thought that Curaçao was settled only around 5300 to 4900 years ago. However, the new data suggest that the ...

The Biden admin's failure to fulfill a deal with Panama hinders efforts to control illegal immigration from South America to ...

International borders have changed dramatically over the centuries. In some cases entire countries have been erased from the ...