Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 950,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration ...

The Andean Community has ordered Peru to take immediate action against illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking. The ...

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 foliage, ...

Ecuador has started shutting down wells in the country’s fourth-largest oilfield after a referendum called for state-owned energy company Petroecuador to stop operations in the Amazon region on ...

Indigenous groups in Ecuador are fighting back against the federal government and oil companies. Seven indigenous groups are ...

Researchers say their findings highlight just how important tropical rainforests are in our ongoing efforts to address ...

LONDON (Reuters) - 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 ...

Efraín Fueres was gunned down Sunday while marching in protest against high costs of living and government crackdowns that ...

RICHMOND, California (AP) — An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Imagine oil workers appearing in your backyard and drilling without warning ...

A series of earthen mounds and buried roads in Ecuador was first noticed more ... Scientists have recently also found evidence of intricate rainforest societies that predated European contact ...

Juan Bay, president of the Waorani people of Ecuador, from left, Jhajayra Machoa Mendúa and Nadino Calapucha, a spokesperson for the Kichwa Pakkiru people, pose for a photograph as a Chevron refinery ...