Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest ... Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities ... which transports crude oil from the Amazon. The company has not estimated the volume of oil spilled.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

At the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil’s most promising oil frontier is at ... between southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northern Peru, which have been drilled for oil since the late 1960s and ...

As night fell across a rainforest in northwestern Ecuador, a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue perched on some foliage and began calling. The “distinct” sound was ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue in a rainforest of Ecuador and discovered a new species. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto As night fell across a ...