The road to Machu Picchu, which morphs into a railway for its most spectacular sector, begins in the Valle Sagrado, or Sacred ...

Landscapes soar from the sky-tickling Andes to the Caribbean coast ... At night, you lay in bed with just a mosquito screen between you and the jungle… incredible. See rainforestexpeditions.com ...

More Andes destinations to add if you have time ... wearing appropriate clothing to cover as much skin as possible, and even ...

From the towering Andes to the Amazon rainforest ... carry insect repellent to avoid mosquito bites. Always have a list of emergency contacts, including local embassies and hospitals, and ...

Colombia has declared a national health emergency amid a yellow fever outbreak, with 76 cases and 34 deaths reported.

The Satanic leaf-tailed gecko. Image by REPTILES4ALL via Depositphotos. Bonding between giraffe mother and calf. Image by GHPhotography, CC BY-SA 4.0 https ...

They were long since cut, and cleared and used. But people in the Andes of Peru are changing that. The guide wears a traditional red woven Andean poncho. He sets his llamas to graze on the lush ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Florida to combat the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika. These mosquitoes are designed to reduce the population of ...

Dengue mosquitoes have prominent black and white stripes. Otherwise, regular mosquitoes are of solid brown or grey colouration and grow to about 3–6 mm in size.

Mosquito season has arrived in Southern California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite. “There’s not a lot of things that we can all agree on ...

Critics of Illinois’ special-purpose districts argue that mosquito abatement districts (MADs), despite their essential role, are an anachronism. They claim that folding MAD responsibilities into ...