In this desolate environment, one creature brings the pizzazz. An international team of researchers organized through the Schmidt Ocean Institute is studying the Chilean margin, an area off the ...

The Aga Khan emerald brooch will enter the Geneva Magnificent Jewels auction on 12 November with a presale estimate of $USD8 million ($AUD12.1 million). The brooch ...

Prescribed beta-blockers lower heart rate. “Natural beta-blockers” in common foods, herbs, and supplements may also lower blood pressure. Here are 11 of them. Some foods, herbs, and supplement ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Many extraordinary stories have been told about the Bahia Emerald, a large portion ... relics to traffickers and has seen its own natural riches paraded by wealthier nations ...

This sentiment resonates with the Brazilian public, as the country has seen its natural and cultural wealth taken abroad for centuries. The Bahia Emerald, many Brazilians feel, represents their ...

But the region is experiencing an environmental crisis. I recently completed a PhD on the northern Colombian Amazon, in which I tracked how the rainforest is fast being deforested and turned into ...

When something big or new or scary happens — something like the natural disasters that are becoming more frequent and intense as the global climate is disrupted — the videos of people living ...

The Gravelotte emerald mine, which was in operation from 1929 to 2002 and was reportedly the world’s biggest emerald mine in its heyday, is once again in production, albeit initially on a very small ...

Plan to Decentralize Colombian Economy Risks an Unsustainable Rise in Debt Top central banker warns of ‘gigantic risks’ from bill Debt to soar to 70% of GDP if lawmakers approve bill ...

"Both the Colombian armed conflict and the degradation of nature are partly the result of an absence, an abandonment on the part of the State." The ambitions of the first left-wing president in ...

Sparkling diamonds and verdant emeralds are some of the most coveted and priciest gemstones. But which precious stones are rarer: diamonds or emeralds? In terms of total known deposits, emeralds are ...

Bravo hopes that identifying hot and cold spots of cadmium in Colombian soils and crops can be used to create targeted interventions—for example, using bioremediation, which involves deploying ...