This startup offers tailored volunteering experiences where participants can continue working remotely while abroad, in addition to volunteering their skills in local communities.

Peruvian environmental authorities make a big statement with tiny turtles.

‘You can't argue for the protection of an area without knowing what is there.’

It's an unlikely match between a 47-year-old Peruvian subsistence farmer and a giant American mining corporation, and yet the former is winning the battle.

Now confirmed, the legendary boiling river deep in the Amazon was long considered an impossibility due to its distance from active volcanoes.

Outfitted with GoPros and solar-powered GPS trackers, the crew of carrion-loving vigilantes is sniffing out illegal dumps in Lima.

Designer Michelle Sheppard creates sustainable garments with a connection to cultural traditions.

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

Nations met in Peru this month to discuss solutions to climate change

Using needle, thread and a dash of imagination, this artist is re-interpreting the stuffy old tradtion of embroidery.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

For one tiny spider recently discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, creating an incredibly convincing decoy of itself seems to come naturally.

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Biologists believe that oil companies are to blame for the recent dolphin deaths.