ATCF Announces 2025 Grant Winners: Community Conservation From Ecuador to Malaysia

The Adventure Travel Conservation Fund (ATCF) has officially announced its 2025 grant winners! These community-led initiatives span Indonesia, Ecuador, Malaysia, Panama, and Zimbabwe, with each one demonstrating a powerful commitment to protecting...

Indigenous-Led Movement Against Austerity Is Gaining Momentum in Ecuador

Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! The video is shocking. The footage is low quality, shot from above and behind the scene: A group of people run from state security forces up an empty...

Scientists stunned after cameras show elusive creatures giving each other hugs: 'This is kind of a big discovery'

"Really complex behaviors." by Cody JanuszkoOctober 3, 2025 When most people think of bats, they likely don't think of cuddly hugs. However, researchers recently captured footage of a group of spectral bats hugging to say hello, The New York Times...

Podcast: Jungle Fumble - The Ecuador Lawsuit Against Texaco/Chevron

Environmental consultant Dave Russell recounts his involvement in the Ecuador lawsuit against Texaco/Chevron over Amazon rainforest contamination. Hired in 2003 to assess cleanup costs, Russell produced a $6.1 billion estimate based on unverified...

Scientists Trace the Ocean Forces Powering Galapagos Biodiversity

Newswise — Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos—September X 2025—Tiny plankton may be invisible to the eye, but they power life in the ocean. This summer, an international team of scientists sailed to the Galápagos for three weeks aboard the R/V...

Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement to Define Next Steps in National Strike

October 2, 2025 Hour: 11:57 am On Thursday, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) will meet to decide new actions to continue the national strike against President Daniel Noboa’s policies. RELATED: Indigenous Protester...

Ecuador’s Social Transparency law deepens Noboa’s authoritarian rule

The trial of Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza has pulled back the curtain on a sweeping state surveillance campaign in Ecuador, exposing undercover operations, and a wave of new laws critics say are dismantling civil society. As President Daniel...

Workshop on Immunodeficiencies of Patients with HIV/AIDS

The First Workshop on Immunodeficiencies and Clinical Management of Patients with HIV/AIDS held this October 1st at the Octavio de la Concepción Pediatric Hospital. According to Dr. Iliana Hernández Ramírez, an immunology specialist, “holding this...

Glacial melt puts strain on national water sources; Cuenca has stable supply but still faces challenges

By Liam Higgins Ecuador has plans to deliver clean drinking water to 98 percent of the country’s population by 2030, up from 61 percent today. Meeting the goal, however, means overcoming major challenges, according to Ecuador’s Secretary of Water...

Christianity in Ecuador

Towards the end of our time in Cuenca, Ecuador, the principal of the school we are visiting took us to Turi, a towering hill from which you can see the entire city of Cuenca spread out below. Turi is also the site of some stunning colonial-era...

Ecuadorian officer praises Dubai Police programme

Dubai: With more than 15 years of experience moving between tactical units, field operations, and security training, Captain Diego Fernando Enriquez of the Preventive Security at the Ecuadorian National Police, believed he had seen it all. Yet his...

Oil Boom in the Ecuadorian Jungle

Law of the Jungle(Random House, 2014), by Paul M. Barrett, reveals the story of a lawyer’s obsession with righting the wrongs perpetrated by a major U.S. oil company accused of polluting the Amazonian rainforest over a 30-year period, destroying...

Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken, scientists warn of worsening droughts

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the cause may lie high above the rainforest, where...

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts

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Classically Educated in Ecuador

The city of Cuenca, Ecuador, was founded in 1557. That was just eleven years after the death of Martin Luther.It is amazing to me that here in the “New World,” we have European-style late-medieval, early Renaissance cities. Though not on the...

Indonesia, Ecuador explore marine biodiversity research cooperation

New York (ANTARA) - Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono and Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld discussed opportunities to strengthen cooperation in marine research, particularly regarding Pacific biodiversity. The two discussed...

Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Ecuador as Government Cracks Down on Environmental and Human Rights Activists

An Indigenous land defender was shot and killed on Sunday in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where he was marching in protest of high costs of living and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists. Efraín Fueres, 46, a community leader,...

Ecuador suspends Canadian-owned mining licence after mass protests

Critics accuse Ecuador's president of a conflict of interest due to his family's investments in a Canadian mining firm that could be shielded by a pending Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement. Ecuador’s president says he has initiated a process to...

South Korean company intends to build high-speed railway in Peru

Saturday, October 4th 2025 - 11:15 UTC The project seeks “to revolutionize the national railway infrastructure,” Sandoval explained Peruvian authorities are developing a plan for a high-speed railway along its coast, supported by a South Korean...

Violent clash over fuel prices in Ecuador leaves 1 protester dead and 12 soldiers injured

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