By Shanna Hanbury A massive oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple ...

An international court published its ruling this month that the Ecuadorian government was responsible for a long list of ...

Canada and Ecuador's new free-trade agreement is threatening the rights of Indigenous peoples and their territories, and ...

At 13, she is one of nine Amazonian girls who won a lawsuit against the state to stop gas flaring in the world’s largest ...

Ecuador's Environment and Ecological Transition Minister José Antonio Dávalos announced that some 4,000 hectares of native forests in the Amazon region will be reforested because they are ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency ...

Ecuador battled a spreading oil slick Tuesday that has reached several rivers after a spill left thousands without drinking ...

In a secluded part of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, river transport is far more common than road travel. Here, boats glide along the Wichimi River, a wide channel that snakes through the dense ...

Voters were asked whether to ban mining in the highlands and further oil drilling in Yasuni National Park in the Amazon ... according to Ecuador's electoral body. “Today Ecuador takes a giant ...

Ninety-five percent of deforestation in the Amazon has occurred within 3.4 miles of a road, according to a landmark 2014 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ecuador voters decide on August 20 whether drilling will continue in an oil-rich area of the Amazon. Yasuni National Park is one of the most ecologically diverse ...

Experience life in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, and examine how ancestral practices of sustainability are being protected and reinvented by indigenous peoples from different parts of the region.