BOGOTA, Colombia — It’s been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country’s share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to start ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Dec. 09, 2025. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. In response to the legal fight in Ecuador that led to a $9.5 ...

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

In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction ...

Nearly 60% of Ecuador’s voters supported a referendum last year to stop oil drilling in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) oil field, which would protect the nature of Yasuní National Park and its ...

Ecuador has shut down one well and began dismantling infrastructure in a drilling site in a protected area of the Amazon, a year after Ecuadorians voted in a referendum to end oil drilling in a ...

RICHMOND, Calif. – 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 ...