The inhabitants of the "Lost City of the Amazon" in Ecuador's Upano River Valley grew corn and planted alder trees for over 1 ...

When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, it was a triumph for environmentalists seeking to protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. And it was in ...

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it's not just to save money on fuel — the trees of the rainforest will benefit too.

BOGOTA, Colombia — It’s been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country’s share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to ...

California is the largest global consumer of Amazon oil, with much of it refined and used in the state as fuel. Ecuador is the region’s top producer of onshore crude.

Down in Ecuador, @Chevron has not paid even the first $1 to Indigenous peoples for its far larger “Amazon Chernobyl” disaster that dates to 1964. Think about it.

National oil company Petroecuador had permission to exploit 300 hectares, but says it is only using 80 hectares. The Amazon basin — which stretches across eight nations — is a vital carbon sink.

Ecuador’s GDP from oil has dropped significantly from around 18% in 2008, to just over 6% in 2021.

Ecuador is asking for international compensation to leave alone a major oilfield in the heart of the Amazon. Ecuador’s president says he will wait up to one year for a response before drilling.

[1/5]Members of the A'i Cofan community walk to harvest yuca plants near the banks of the Aguarico River in Ecuador's Amazon, where indigenous groups were granted power to block mining projects ...

QUITO, Jan 31 – A burst pipeline in Ecuador caused an oil spill within a protected area of the country’s Amazon rainforest, the environment ministry said on Monday, adding that the pipeline ...