The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution to review and eventually end the state’s imports of crude oil ...

Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National ...

According to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Ecuador has granted 16% of its land to public and private oil companies. In Latin America, it is the country with most Indigenous lands affected by ...

The people of Ecuador are heading to the polls – but they’re voting for more than just a new president. For the first time in history, the people will decide the fate of oil extraction in the ...

Down in Ecuador, @Chevron has not paid even the first $1 to Indigenous peoples for its far larger “Amazon Chernobyl” disaster that dates to 1964. Think about it.

California is the largest global consumer of Amazon oil, with much of it refined and used in the state as fuel. Ecuador is the region’s top producer of onshore crude.

Voters in Ecuador last year approved a referendum to keep some 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park.

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it's not just to save money on fuel — the trees of the rainforest will benefit too.

National oil company Petroecuador had permission to exploit 300 hectares, but says it is only using 80 hectares. The Amazon basin — which stretches across eight nations — is a vital carbon sink.

Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest.

QUITO, Jan 31 – A burst pipeline in Ecuador caused an oil spill within a protected area of the country’s Amazon rainforest, the environment ministry said on Monday, adding that the pipeline ...