Fly over the haunting Train Cemetery of Uyuni, Bolivia, where rusting locomotives stand abandoned in the vast salt flats. This eerie graveyard of trains, once part of Bolivia’s railway boom, now ...

Ancient ruins, stunning scenery, delicious local cuisines and untouched wild coastlines with pristine sandy beaches are just ...

Peruvian-Mexican Musuk Nolte won this year’s World Press Photo in the South America stories category for his coverage of the ...

Global demand for lithium is expected to increase by nearly 500% over the next few decades, as countries invest more in ...

According to their statement, lithium mining in this region could contaminate or deplete the Yaqui Nation’s precious water resources for up to 300 years. The extraction would take place under Plan ...

Brandt photographed Syrian families in the deserts of southern Jordan who had been displaced by the war in Syria between 2013 and 2013.

But lithium also brings its own environmental concerns, putting stress on freshwater supplies in the desert areas where ... Argentina and Bolivia, where an arid climate and water-trapping basins ...

There’s something oddly irresistible about places that have been ghosted by humans and left to rot—beautifully. Think of them ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and ...