Ed Regis explores why certain food plants are treated by authorities and the public as “genetically modified,” as worthy of strict cautionary regulation and others seen as "natural.”

More than two dozen indigenous women leaders met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, to hear from experts such as human rights lawyers and land rights defenders.

For The Roman Catholic Church, which has ramped up its focus on the Amazon and the millions of indigenous people who live there, prayer is not enough.

Just in Colombia, scientists have amassed a collection of over 20,000 animal sounds being used to study everything from climate change to deforestation and urbanization.

UN says land tenure of Indigenous and traditional landholders is key to climate adaption but Colombia warn they can’t protect the forests if they can’t protect themselves.

Ex-guerrillas in Colombia are learning about how they can use the latest technology and scientific knowledge to help them launch or improve ecotourism businesses.

The Colombian government did little to prioritise science until a peace treaty in 2016 ended a 50-year conflict, but now scientists are welcoming proposed reforms.

A NASA rocket will carry a science project from Nestor Epinayu, 16, and his fellow science club members from a small Indigenous community in Colombia.

The Spanish government has passed reforms to the nation’s scientific system that will cut red tape and make life easier for researchers — especially parents.

Colombian scientists are cautiously optimistic after the country’s Senate voted to create the nation’s first Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

Colombian biologist Jean Paul Delgado dropped plans to sequence the genome of Bolitoglossa ramosi because of burdensome regulations.

Three months after the European Union’s top court gave gene-edited crops the same stringent legal status as GMOs, researchers world-wide feel the pinch.

When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the huge amounts of agricultural waste that never make it off the farm.

Mothers are crossing from Venezuela to Colombia just to get their babies vaccinated because because the Venezuelan health system can't help.

In an isolated part of Colombia better known for rice, pineapples, and paramilitaries, something else is taking root: the next generation of female scientists.

In Colombia, kids like Julián Murillo, 8 are learning barista skills with the goal of saving the country's coffee culture. “I want to run my own coffee shop one day," he says.

Paola Tello Guerrero is telling a school group about a young woman who traveled to icy Antarctica to read to the penguins. The twist? It's actually her.

A growing body of research suggests newly post-conflict areas provide a golden opportunity to tackle the challenge of deforestation.

Against a backdrop of waning American soft power in South and Central America, Taiwan and China are using a mix of diplomacy and money to advance their agendas.

Judith is a real person, not a character. Her story ties in with the more complex story of how Medellin became a modern, innovative city.