Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The private company that runs an oil pipeline in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest stopped pumping oil Saturday after a rupture in the ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency and order residents to ration drinking water. The spill, believed to have ...

A massive oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife refuge in thick, black sludge, impacting more than half a million ...

Residents of Puerto Maderos are fed up with repeated oil spills polluting their river – Copyright AFP Brendan Smialowski There is oil in the water, on the rocks and ...