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The Eloria Noyesi coca-eating butterfly could become this country's substitute weapon in the "War on the Drugs" believes biologist Alberto Gómez Mejía.

Community initiatives are helping to curb the violence in Colombia's most important port city, Buenaventura.

Colombia has made important strides in its disaster risk management, yet more investment is needed to reduce exposure to natural disasters.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is backing an agro-industrial venture in Colombia which aims to change the lives of potato farmers.

Complaining about transportation in Colombia won't get you anywhere, as history has shown that this country moves and people still carry people.

Giancarlo Mazzanti is the mastermind behind some of Colombia’s most imposing structures. His additions to the landscape help transform vulnerable communities.

Photojournalist Giovanni Diffidenti has dedicated two decades to capturing the victims of landmines; the "perfect soldier." The Government and FARC will embark soon on an…

Wayúu leader Javier Rojas explains how corruption and open-pit mining exacerbate a critical water shortage in Colombia's La Guajira department.

Colombia’s high altitude wetlands are home to rare herbs and medicinal plants used by communities for their curative elements.

A spectacular hummingbird species feared extinct for 69 years has been rediscovered in Colombia.

Nasa's Kepler mission has discovered small habitable-sized planets . Has to time come to create new "homes" in our universe?

Women in a small Afro-Colombian town are coming to terms with their violent past through a community-led initiative to embroider their history as quilts.

Tomás Rueda puts karma in his kitchens as he leads a food conscious movement known as the ‘B-side’ of gastronomy.

As we delve into a new year, Anna Vogt reflects on a year working with the displaced and vulnerable communities in the Chocó.

The director of Global Heritage Fund’s Colombia program is an archaeologist whose ongoing work in ‘Ciudad Perdida’ has contributed to our understanding of the Tairona.

Writer John Lundin reflects on a transcendental year living among the elders of the Sierra Nevada.