The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution to review and eventually end the state’s imports of crude oil ...

According to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Ecuador has granted 16% of its land to public and private oil companies. In Latin America, it is the country with most Indigenous lands affected by ...

The people of Ecuador are heading to the polls – but they’re voting for more than just a new president. For the first time in history, the people will decide the fate of oil extraction in the ...

SINANGOE/PUYO, Ecuador, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, indigenous leader Marcelo Lucitante deftly climbs a tree and attaches a camera trap, camouflaged ...

Ecuadorans have voted to stop an oil drilling project in an Amazon reserve, according to the results Monday of a referendum hailed as a historic example of climate democracy. The "Yes" vote to ...

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.

Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National ...

Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest, NGO The Nature Conservancy said on ...

Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest.

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 ...

The first case of the novel coronavirus has been detected in one of Ecuador's indigenous Amazon tribes, the health ministry said Sunday.