Medellín cartel founder Pablo Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park-meets-Disney World resort. Now it’s overrun by hippos.

Farmers and foragers set up at sunset to sell hundreds of species valued in traditional medicine and ritual.

Perhaps fiercest of all was Manuela Sáenz—spy, archivist, prankster, and companion of Simón Bolívar.

The schoolteacher’s long-running Biblioburro program delivers reading materials to children in Colombia.

Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of the FARC, Colombia's disarmed guerrilla group.

And a scary lesson on humility and respect for the natural world.

"We are the place on Earth where glaciers shouldn't be, and they are here.”

Scientists and conservators are finally able to return to what was once an Andean war zone.