Seeing illegal gold mines despoil remote Ecuadorian forests helped me to understand what happened to Pittsburgh — and to appreciate what we still have. The post Six weeks in the Amazon’s headwaters ...

A beetle stands on a leaf on the family farm of Ramon Pucha, which he has turned into a conservation site to preserve native ...

The Amazon River winds through the lush lowlands of eastern Ecuador, forming one of the most vital ecosystems on Earth. From above, its sinuous curves carve through dense rainforest, wetlands, and ...

Ecuador has 65 oil and gas lease blocks, 88% of them in the Amazon, covering a quarter of the country’s total area. That’s according to a new data set from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

Pucha and his family have spent years recreating their own piece of jungle with rescued species on a 32-hectare farm called ...

Millions of years ago, the Green River carved a path through the Uinta Mountains instead of flowing around the formation. Now ...

Ecuador is the home to the Galapagos Islands, one of the most famous island chains in the world. However, mainland Ecuador ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It’s been 50 years since acclaimed Montana author Norman Maclean published “A River Runs Through ...

Colombia and Ecuador punished each other with dueling levies Thursday on fuel and other imports, escalating a trade and diplomatic feud over narco activity on their shared border. Quito accuses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This aerial view shows trucks queueing at the border between Colombia and Ecuador before new tariff measures come into effect in ...

Hundreds of truck drivers waited for hours in miles-long lines to cross the border between Colombia and Ecuador as reciprocal tariffs loomed. Ecuador this month said it would impose 30 percent tariffs ...