Nov 15th, 2008 · The Shining Path appears to be re-emerging in Peru. Last month 17 government soldiers and five civilians were killed in the jungle by the group. Guest host Lynn Neary talks with NPR's Juan Forero about the new faces of the Shining Path.
Jul 28th, 2008 · Biologist Greg Budney journeys to Guatemala, where the bellowing calls of howler monkeys fill the jungle.
Jul 2nd, 2008 · Colombian troops have rescued three American Defense Department contractors and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt after years of captivity by leftist guerrillas in the jungle, a Colombian official said Wednesday.
Jun 24th, 2008 · In the summer of 2007, Brent Stirton took a photograph that shocked the world. It came from a conflict zone, but it wasn't an ordinary war photo. It was a picture of a murdered mountain gorilla — one of seven that had been shot in their jungle preserve.
Jun 5th, 2008 · The true story of an American G.I. fleeing an Army manhunt through the jungles of India and Burma is told in the new book, "Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II." The author, Brendan Koerner, joins us.
Jun 3rd, 2008 · Alex Chadwick talks with Brendan Koerner about his book, Now the Hell Will Start. It's the true story of Private Herman Perry, an African-American soldier in World War II who murdered his commanding officer and fled to the jungles of Burma.
May 28th, 2008 · When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again — at the age of 80 — guess who found himself sorting through the personals? In Assisted Loving, Morris chronicles the search for Dad's new Ms. Right — and his own misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.
Feb 25th, 2008 · Cutting down forests in the Amazon destroys a natural means of absorbing carbon dioxide. But new roads in the jungle also create new pools of standing water -- ideal breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes.