Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.

S tudents in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law spent a week of their winter break in ...

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 start shutting down ...

The in-depth story of the “Amazon Chernobyl” Disaster in Ecuador. Deep within the Lungs of the World - the Amazon Rainforest - a disaster of unprecedented magnitude is taking place.

“Today Ecuador takes a giant step to protect life, biodiversity, and indigenous people,” the country's two main indigenous organizations, Confeniae and Conaie, posted on social media. Swedish ...

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 ...

Ecuador voters decide on August 20 whether drilling will continue in an oil-rich area of the Amazon. Yasuni National ... it's home to the Indigenous Waorani people, who are fighting to protect ...