A new dawn seemed possible in Colombia's poorest, conflict-scarred department, where dozens of children had died from mercury ...

President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's ambitious land redistribution plan faces challenges including crime gangs, bureaucracy, ...

For more than five decades as violent conflict raged through Colombia's highlands and rainforests, wildlife thrived. From ...

One Colombian soldier was killed and two security force members injured Friday in a pair of motorcycle bomb attacks blamed on dissidents from the defunct FARC guerrilla group.

New plant species discoveries tripled after peace deal Findings include beetles, frogs, orchids, rare amphibian Revived armed groups cause deforestation and endanger researchers Oct 27 (Reuters ...

By: Alicia Muñoz Bohorquez A historic meeting took place this month in Bogota: the First Global Ministerial Conference to End ...

Image Courtesy of Center for American Progress By MaggieMae Dethlefsen Due to shared concerns about security, drug ...

José Aruna, a forest defender from Sud Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), remembers the night in September 2019 when a group of heavily armed men barged into his house in the ...

Colombia is one of the world’s most biodiverse nations. Since 2016, it has also been facing challenges in implementing a peace agreement signed after five decades of conflict, much of which was ...

Delegations from the Colombian government and the left-wing ELN guerilla group will gather from Friday in neighboring Venezuela for a meeting that seeks to restart peace negotiations and resume a ...

COLOMBIA, — The United Nations ... The findings prompted a U.N. special emergency session — typically called to address ...