On January 8, 1956, five Christian missionaries lost their lives in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador at the ... the heart of the mighty South American rainforest. After reconnaissance flights, they ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest ... Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru ...

A university has been set up in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in north-eastern Ecuador, to research and protect the invaluable habitat more effectively. We take a closer look at this cutting-edge ...

The report comes as oil pollution forced neighboring Peru to declare an environmental state of emergency in its northern Amazon rainforest. Ecuador owed China more than $7 billion — more than a ...

As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

YURIMAGUAS, Peru – The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together 30 indigenous peoples of the upper Amazon in Ecuador and Peru ... of the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Reporting Grant and ...

Directed by Pablo Albarenga and produced with support from the Pulitzer Center and OpenDemocracy, the 18-minute documentary explores the Amazon ... of rainforest straddling the Ecuador-Peru ...