Rising from Colombia’s Guainía jungle, the Mavecure Hills are ancient granite monoliths steeped in Indigenous myths and spiritual meaning. For the Piaroa, Curripaco, and Yekuana peoples, they are ...

Hidden deep inside Venezuela’s forests, a powerful waterfall drops over 100 metres in a wide, curtain-like flow ...

The average thrill seeker, if there is such a type, may still be high on LSD. But to serious researchers, it has become as old hat as peyote and marijuana. Meeting last week at San Francisco’s ...

In the 18th century, explorers navigating the vast Orinoco River, a major waterway spanning the northeastern corner of South America, reported sightings of numerous rock engravings of snakes adorning ...

Amazon forest is seriously threatened due to land-use changes such as agricultural expansion and intensification (Barlow et al., 2016). Shifting cultivation can promote the loss of Amazon forest ...

To build what's next, we may need to remember what's been forgotten. That philosophy is taking root on the rural outskirts of Tenjo, Colombia, where an Indigenous construction lab is redefining what ...

A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnut A curious doughnut-shaped structure ...

The term sustainability as it relates to design and architecture is so much a defining part of the zeitgeist that it is often interchangeable with other idioms like ‘green architecture’ or ‘passive ...

A couple of Piaroa natives from the Samaria tribe cook casabe (a kind of bread) in the outskirts of Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas state, Venezuela on October 24, 2013. The Samaria tribe counts with some ...

The July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela have sparked especially heated disputes, with President Nicolás Maduro’s right-wing challenger, Edmundo González, and several countries refusing to ...