Did you know you can actually swim in the Amazon River? In Ecuador you can! In this video, Travel + Leisure guides you on an ...

SANTA ROSA, Ecuador, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A rupture in Ecuador's second largest oil pipeline has polluted the Santa Rosa river in the lush Amazon jungle and shut off the flow of crude to a Pacific port ...

Since the 1980s, the combined populations of river dolphin species have plummeted by 73%. With the Global Declaration for River Dolphins, 14 countries (six of them in Latin America) are expected to ...

Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, along the banks of the Napo River, shows how biodiversity can thrive when humans don’t interfere. A butterfly sits perched on the shell of an endangered yellow-spotted ...

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 ...