When Covid-19 first hit Colombia in early March, Medellín's municipal government was already looking for ways to include cultural institutions in the city’s pandemic response.

Less than a year ago, Colombian Indigneous leader Anitalia Piachi was addressing the Catholic Church’s leadership in Rome, now her community is hard-hit by COVID-19.

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.

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.

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.

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

Worried mothers clutch sick children who are presenting with a mix of maladies, but this isn't a doctor's waiting room, it's a migrant centre.

At the Colombia-Venezuela border, there are a surprising number of kids in school uniforms, who live in Venezuela and daily cross the border just to go to school.

In Latin America, China’s space diplomacy takes on an added dimension because the majority of the 17 countries that still recognize Taiwan are located here.

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.

Scientists led by an Australian entomologist have been working on a novel concept to eliminate Dengue by breeding and releasing thousands of them.

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

At 8pm on the day Juan Guaidó swore himself in as Venezuela's interim leader, police raided local television stations in the western oil city of Maracaibo.

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

An alliance of scientists, indigenous peoples and religious leaders met in Colombia in November to determine how church leaders can help drive environmental policy.

Keeping an eye on what is going on out in the vast countryside of Colombia’s palm oil plantations is a challenge. But that may be about to change.

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