Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela The Warao are a ...

An intricate labyrinth, the waters of the Orinoco Delta weave through the jungle on their way to the Atlantic Ocean. The Orinoco branches off into over 60 waterways and 40 rivers in the delta, ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 5-- Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has begun a $375 million, 2-year exploration program in the waters of the Orinoco Delta, hoping to add natural gas reserves to meet internal and ...

An estimated 700 Indigenous Warao people from Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta now live in the Amazon Delta city of Belém in Brazil, having fled there from the economic crisis in their home country. In Belém ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. At first I thought the noise came from our cook Juan, whose bulbous stomach was heaving up and down as he slumbered ...

Amid the heat, humidity and unrelenting bugs, it seemed a good idea to grab the boat from the jungle lodge, crank the outboard motor and head upriver to catch the sunset. Large tapirs ran up and down ...

I dropped my hook baited with chicken into the water and thrashed the surface with the broken nine-iron that was serving as my rod. Our guide Victor nodded sagely in approval of my technique – it ...

THE water surges along the strait, a river of brown maintaining a line of demarcation at the head where it swiftly pushes the blue of the sea. As the line reaches our pirogue and races past we are ...