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 ...

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador lies the "Amazon Chernobyl", a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster brought on ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know you can actually swim in the Amazon River? In Ecuador you can! In this video, Travel + Leisure guides you on an ...

RICHMOND — An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution calling for a review of its imports of crude oil from the Amazon rainforest and an eventual phase-out, following years of ...

A delegation from Alianza Ceibo, Amazon Frontlines, representatives of other Amazonian nationalities, and activist Jane Fonda, on a tour about the damage caused by oil extraction in the Amazon. Credit ...

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

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

Read full article: Leon Valley police arrest man in connection with deadly hit-and-run crash; held on $250K bond The latest forecast from Your Weather Authority RICHMOND, Calif. – An oil tanker sat ...