How Scientists And Indigenous Groups Can Team Up to Protect Forests and Climate
A collaboration between Smithsonian researchers and the Emberá people of Panama aims to rewrite a fraught narrative
The Bittersweet Story of Vanilla
Today, less than 1 percent of vanilla flavoring comes from the vanilla flower. Is that a good thing?
Step Inside This Underground Cathedral, Carved Into the Walls of an Abandoned Salt Mine
An old mine has transformed into a subterranean worship space, 650 feet underground
This Artist Creates Roses From Weapons Left Behind By War
“Two Roses for Peace” brings together people on both sides of a 1982 conflict
What Have the World’s Oldest Mummies Kept Under Wraps?
Researchers are making digital reconstructions of the 7,000-year-old bodies, which face rapid deterioration from microbes
The Best Way to Protect the World’s Forests? Keep People in Them
Instead of kicking indigenous groups out, let them continue to manage these lands effectively, argues a new report
After 52 Years, the War Between Colombia and the FARC Will End
Four out of five of the decades-long conflict’s dead were civilians
10,000 Scrotum Frogs Found Dead Near Lake Titicaca
Over 10,000 of the world’s largest water frogs were found dead along the Coata River, a tributary of the heavily polluted lake
An Artist Blanketed Bogota’s Bolívar Square With the Names of Victims of Colombia’s Civil War
Remembering the dead as the country struggles to make peace
Campsite Places Humans in Argentina 14,000 Years Ago
Excavations at the site Arroyo Seco 2 include stone tools and evidence that humans were hunting giant sloths, giant armadillos and extinct horse species
Colombian Statue Heads Home After 80 Years
The slab figure disappeared from Colombia’s National Musuem in 1939
Earliest Evidence of Indigo Dye Found at Ancient Peruvian Burial Site
The dyed fabrics represent the earliest known use of indigo in the world, predating Egyptian samples by about 1,600 years
Rare Maya Burial Temple Discovered in Belize
Excavations at Xunantunich have uncovered the remains of a body and hieroglyphics that tell the story of the snake-head dynasty
Peru Cracks Down on Illegal Gold Miners
A boom in outlaw mining activity in the last five years is polluting rivers, poisoning people and destroying forests in the Peruvian Amazon
The Media Village at the Rio Olympics Is Built on a Mass Grave of Slaves
As Brazil looks forward to an Olympic future, it buries its past
Browse Though the Amazon’s 12,000 Tree Species in This New Master List
Gotta count ‘em all
Researchers Travel to the Amazon to Find Out if Musical Taste is Hardwired
Members of the Tsimane tribe showed no preference between consonant and dissonate tones, meaning Western music is probably not biologically based
Commemorate the Panama Canal’s Expansion With These Photos From Its Construction
The Panama Canal is opening a third lane to accommodate new mega cargo ships, a feat almost—but not quite—as impressive as building the original
NASA Announces World’s New Lightning Hotspot
The electric capital tops the charts with lightning storms 297 nights per year
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Species Had Great Eyesight and a Droopy Head
Sarmientosaurus weighed as much as two elephants but had a brain the size of a lime
Page 5 of 7