Insufficient rainfall in 2023-2024 has taken a toll on South America’s rivers and groundwater and upended daily life in ...

Ecuadoran activist Alex Lucitante has never shied away from the fight against land-grabbing miners and armed groups in his ...

About a quarter of Ecuador’s gold exports from small-scale mining in 2023 originated from just three companies: Rockgolden, ...

Migrants changed Cooma forever when they arrived to work on the Snowy Hydro Project 70 years ago. Now Snowy 2.0 is attracting more families from different countries, and the women are thriving.

The Mira River originates in the Andes of Ecuador and flows to the Pacific Ocean in Colombia. For a few kilometers it forms the border between the two countries. The upper course of the Mira is called ...

Researchers review the reemergence and range expansion of Oropouche virus in South America, highlighting risks of spread to ...

Visitors start at one of two trailheads, the Kraemer Library and Community Center in Plain or the Sauk Prairie Area Chamber of Commerce in Sauk City, to pick up a map of the route. Once on the ...

Ambato is a city located in the central Andean valley of Ecuador. Lying on the banks of the Ambato River, the city also sits beneath several tall mountains. It is the capital city of the Tungurahua ...

Rural communities in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador are fighting to protect fragile high-altitude wetlands that regulate ...

Drought has led to rotating water rationing in Bogota, Colombia's capital of almost 10 million people, while Ecuador's energy ...

QUITO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The office of Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa said in a statement on Wednesday it has replaced Energy Minister Antonio Goncalves, as the Andean country grapples with ...