Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The private company that runs an oil pipeline in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest stopped pumping oil Saturday after a rupture in the ...

By Maxwell Radwin Earlier this month, state-owned oil company Petroecuador announced a new project involving “hydraulic ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 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 ...

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador lies the "Amazon Chernobyl", a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster brought on ...

This sprawling ancient metropolis in the jungle of Ecuador has revealed a unique form of urbanism. The BBC visits the site ...

This release is also available in Spanish. Exploring for oil and extracting it from the Amazon region of northeastern Ecuador has boosted the country's income over the last several decades, but it has ...