Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...
On January 8, 1956, five Christian missionaries lost their lives in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador at the hands of the Waodani, an isolated tribe known for its extreme violence, even within their own ...
Ecuadorans have voted to stop an oil drilling project in an Amazon Rainforest reserve, according to the results Monday of a referendum hailed as a historic example of climate democracy. Ecuador is one ...
Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...
WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...
Ecuadorians voted on Sunday to stop an oil-drilling project in the Yasuni region of the Amazon with 59% voting yes on a proposition that will end the practice. Ecuador’s government estimates that 1.67 ...