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A modest wooden school in the middle of the Colombian Amazon preserves the memory of atrocities perpetrated against Indigenous people by rubber industrialists more than a century ago.But more than a century after the atrocities, the community says it is facing a new threat: violence perpetrated by drug traffickers, illegal ranchers and loggers, and guerrillas operating in the jungle.

As dawn began to break in the Peruvian Amazon on March 5, an oil slick spread across the Puinahua River in the district of the same name, engulfing clumps of palms and reeds in a thick, black layer as it streamed down the current. The sight of the spill prompted a desperate rush among the […]

As Alice and the Red Queen run towards a chessboard in Lewis Carroll’s childhood classic, the wind whistling in their ears, the little girl makes a curious discovery: despite running very fast for a very long time, she hasn’t actually moved.

A new group exhibition brings together the work of 28 artists from America and beyond who use their work to cover how difficult times have inspired them

A Redditor found what looked like a human jawbone embedded in the tiles of his parents home. Multiple experts confirmed that it likely belonged to an ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus.

Environmental crime slows climate action, deters investment in nature-based solutions, and undermines the green transition. Around the world, land grabbing, illegal deforestation, illicit mining, poaching and a rash of other crimes are ravaging tropical forests, eroding biodiversity, and reversing sustainable development. Despite growing awareness of the problem, an ecosystem of criminality persists in most major biomes, from the Amazon Basin to […]

Cornell Atkinson has announced its 2024 Postdoctoral Fellows, who work jointly with a Cornell advisor and an external advisor from a partner organization.

This is an incredible find.

The regional winners of the 2024 World Press Photo competition highlight the best in photojournalism and documentary photography worldwide.

The most important photojournalism contest in the world will be announcing four global winners on April 18