Extractive industries threaten water, glaciers, and livelihoods, but new research offers hope.

Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.

It’s part of a decadeslong trend.

Footprints preserved in mud were made by humans thousands of years before any people were thought to be in the Americas, a team confirms.

Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.

The early settlement of the Americas is hugely contested area of archaeology.

Water temperatures in the 90s off Florida in July are alarming, a NOAA coral scientist writes. Scientists in several North American countries have already spotted coral bleaching off their coasts.

China is a major investor in Latin America’s renewable energy and critical minerals like lithium, but countries like Chile are also taking steps to secure their own clean energy future.