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 ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler For much of the late 20th century, oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon proceeded with little restraint. Wastewater and drilling residues were discharged into rivers or left ...

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

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

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

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 ...