The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

A man in Oxford was arrested for being in violation of U.S. immigration law. He is also wanted in connection to a 2011 murder ...

The Eastern Pacific Ocean spans the west coast of the Americas, crossing 13 countries from Canada to Chile. WWF focuses our ...

Deep in Ecuador's Podocarpus National Park, 2,200 illegal miners work in conditions that would shock Charles Dickens. They're ...

President Daniel Noboa's administration won legislative approval for two key laws aimed at strengthening its response to ...

Noboa won reelection promising a hardline security agenda to tackle Ecuador’s security crisis. His plans will face two major ...

Cocaine's journey to the recreational British user involves an elaborate network of cartels, traffickers and street-level ...

While Colombia had managed to tame the worst excesses of organized crime within its borders—steadily lowering the murder rate from over 80 per 100,000 in the 1990s to about 25 per 100,000 in 2024—in ...

Colombia and the region are paying the price for slow implementation of the 2016 peace accord, but a turnaround is still ...

Ecuador has launched a nationwide crackdown on criminal gangs extorting shrimp producers and attacking transport routes in key coastal and river zones ...

So far efforts to curb the gangs have been dispiriting. This week in Colombia, where the government has pursued fruitless ...

North Korea appears to have stopped broadcasting loud noises towards the South, Seoul's military said Thursday, one day after ...