Deep in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, oil giants left behind one of the most toxic legacies in modern history. This is the untold story of the “Amazon Chernobyl.” ...

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 ...

One leaf in the Ecuadorian rainforest where this story was photographed could easily harbor more treehopper species than found in all of Europe. Treehoppers are members of a huge and varied order ...

Photo from Hernández Hernández, de Oliveira, Diaz-Guevara, Alarcón-Ortiz, Pazmiño-Palomino (2025) Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots ...

Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. Its “golden” ...

The nomadic Tagaeri and Taromenane rely on hunting and gathering in the Amazon Rainforest of eastern Ecuador, but the area has also been an attractive location for oil development. Several of the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ecuador voters decide on August 20 whether drilling will continue in an oil-rich area of the Amazon. Yasuni National Park is one of the most ecologically diverse ...

The Amazon rainforest is a global hot spot of life and biodiversity. Spanning eight countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana – this ...