The sights and sounds of the Amazon rainforest come alive in this video that makes you feel you are in the heart of Amazonia.

Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...

"Their only means of survival." Indigenous tribe living deep in Amazon rainforest fends off outside forces: 'We are the ...

Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But ...

In a secluded part of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, river transport is far more common than road travel. Here, boats glide along the Wichimi River, a wide channel that snakes through the dense foliage, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...

Ecuadorans have voted to stop an oil drilling project in an Amazon Rainforest reserve, according to the results Monday of a referendum hailed as a historic example of climate democracy. Ecuador is one ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest, NGO The Nature ...