BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government reported on Thursday a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Colombian lesserblack tarantula, Xenesthis immanis, is a large terrestrial bird spider, with hairy legs and body and a ...

LETICIA, Colombia — The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia's only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that's fueling a border ...

MOCOA, Colombia—The wall outside the small airport in Puerto Assis, in the state of Putumayo in the Colombian Amazon, is adorned with a mural depicting five women’s faces. This and Putumayo’s five ...

A researcher in Colombia has been investigating the impact that women have had in the Amazon region since the signing of the peace deal with the FARC guerrillas in 2016. Since then, women-led social, ...

Colombia's only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border... Colombia's lone Amazon port faces drying river and ...

The arboreal tarantulas Avicularia juruensis and Avicularia purpurea have two morphotypes depending on geographical location. Hapalopus species are commonly called “pumpkin patch tarantulas” because ...

The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia’s only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that’s fueling a border dispute with ...