The mighty Amazon River, a tropical torrent that carries about 20 percent of the fresh water that flows into the world’s oceans, starts out as a trickling snow-fed stream. That’s what a five-nation ...

On the most favored corner of the riverfront promenade in the Peruvian city of Iquitos, the Amazon Explorers Club stands as a gathering spot and lighthouse for explorers, travelers, botanists, authors ...

Roosevelt initially waxed lyrical about the enormous variety of flora and fauna and thought there was a “duty to preserve from impoverishment and extinction the natural wildlife which is an asset of ...