Health experts warn pregnant lupus sufferers and their babies are at risk as global supplies of an anti-malarial medicine used to treat the disease run dry due to COVID-19 panic.

A lone voice rings out over the deafening silence of a Monday morning in Medellin, Colombia "Aguacate!" yells the fruit seller, using the Spanish word for avocado.

Despite fears of food insecurity,indigenous communities around the globe are closing borders in an effort to avoid a potentially devastating corona-virus outbreak in their territories.

The government and Catholic Church in El Salvador are confronting another new, challenging era in the country’s already rocky past: the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experts from Venezuela are warning that an already-crippled health care system makes it likely the country will be hit hard by COVID-19, which will in turn affect the entire Latin American region.

American TV host and self-styled "adventurer" Forrest Galante claimed he found a rare reptile, but it was already documented by Colombian researcher Sergio Balaguera-Reina.

Women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats but they often struggle to have their own rights to these lands recognized and respected.

For over 20 years, Carlos Osorio, 65, was a conventional farmer outside the central Colombian village of El Carmen de Viboral — spraying pesticides every single day.

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.”

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.