A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation ...

Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades.

A decision by the Ecuadorian government to pay Chevron roughly $220 million following an investor-state arbitration ruling has ignited intense criticism from Indigenous communities, human rights ...

SINANGOE/PUYO, Ecuador, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, indigenous leader Marcelo Lucitante deftly climbs a tree and attaches a camera trap, camouflaged ...

AMAZONIA, Ecuador — Indigenous communities in the Amazonian rainforest believe nature has a spirit. Trees, flowers and plants have as much importance as human lives in Ecuador’s rainforest, possibly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

QUITOQUITO — El volcán Sangay, en la Amazonia ecuatoriana, ha registrado más de 1.300 explosiones en las últimas 24 horas que han generado penachos se gases y ceniza sobre su cumbre como parte de una ...

In the Ecuadoran Amazon, at least 447 flares have been burning gas for decades. Local communities say these flares are responsible for the high cancer rates in the area. The Sucumbíos Provincial Court ...