Four Peruvian soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Peru’s president have turned violent, military officials ...

Andrés Ruzo was a child when he first heard the story of a mythical river buried deep in the bowels of the Peruvian Amazon, so hot that it boiled. He never forgot about it. Later in life, as a Ph.D.

Andrés Ruzo first heard about the Boiling River from his Peruvian grandfather, who shared a legend with him when he was a kid about the Lost City of Gold in Peru. “One of the details of the story was ...

If you thought Australia was the most terrifying place in the world, then maybe this will change your mind: Deep within the Amazon rainforest lies a river that is so Godforsakenly hot that it can and ...

LIMA, Peru--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ten years ago Peru was front and center on the international stage thanks to the Amazon River, the longest and fastest-flowing river in the world, being named a natural ...

Este entrevista está disponible en español. This interview is available in Spanish. See photos and video of Rosa Vásquez Espinoza’s expedition to the Boiling River and learn more about her research on ...

Lobo de río, or river wolf, is the very evocative Spanish name for one of the Amazon’s most spectacular mammals: the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). This highly intelligent, deeply social, ...

Peruvian government officials and children released about 6,000 Taricaya turtles into a river in the Amazon. The Taricaya, or yellow-spotted river turtle, has become vulnerable due to poaching and ...