A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where the Indigenous Waorani people are imploring ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador's government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling ...

The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

Ecuadorians voted to shield part of the Amazon from oil drilling. How the decision will be implemented is still to be ...

The basic unit of territorial organisation in the northern Andes is known in Kichwa (a variation of Quechua) as llakta.

Campaigners have faced violence and repression trying to stop wildcat gold mining in Ecuador, illegal shrimp farming in ...

The Ecuadorian government has initiated the closure of a significant block of oil wells following a referendum on pumping oil ...

After co-founding the Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontline, Nemonte and her partner, Mitch Anderson, have won a landmark case ...

After enduring seven bouts with malaria and growing weary of Africa’s stifling 120-degree temperatures, Jonathan Edwards, in ...

Bangladesh’s White Paper committee will review foreign loan deals signed by the fallen kleptocratic regime. We recommend that ...

The 53rd International Eucharistic Congress in Quito, Ecuador, started Sept. 8, focusing on unity and healing through ...

Almost 200 environmental activists were murdered last year, with the toll especially heavy in South America, according to ...