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 ...

Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in the Amazon rainforest. President Rafael Correa Thursday approved drilling in a part of Yasuni ...

Ecuador is pushing to increase its production of crude oil but faces a backlash from environmentalists and Indigenous groups.

Good news from Ecuador: rainforests can recover faster than previously thought. A study by TU Darmstadt shows that ...

Ecuador starts fracking in the Amazon, calling it a “new horizon” for oil output. The move to tackle energy shortages raises environmental concerns ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Imagine oil workers appearing in your backyard and drilling without warning ...

Fracking entails extracting natural gas and petroleum from subterranean bedrock, and is criticized for using industrial quantities of water to break open rocks as well as causing ...