Church activists from the province of Orellana in the Ecuadorian Amazon have been staging weekly protests since February against mining and oil exploitation in the rainforest. Protesters say ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday ordered the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s ...

For decades, Maracaibo, Venezuela, has been the site of excessive oil exploitation, poor infrastructure maintenance, and a lack of waste treatment plants. The city’s Lake Maracaibo, the largest in the ...

This release is also available in Spanish. Exploring for oil and extracting it from the Amazon region of northeastern Ecuador has boosted the country's income over the last several decades, but it has ...

Incoming President Donald Trump and his team have suggested that by expanding drilling, oil production might rise by 3 million barrels/day (mb/d), bringing down prices and thus U.S. inflation. This is ...

In a recent referendum, 67.5 percent of Ecuador’s voting population voted in favor increasing Yasuní National Park’s Intangible Zone by at least 50,000 hectares and reducing the oil extraction area in ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has already launched the auction of 27 oil and gas blocks, but several environmental organizations are trying to thwart the plan. "This is a setback for the ...

This report, written by Rayane Penha, is the result of the Oil and Climate Change Microgrants, run by Agência Pública in partnership with WWF-Brazil. It was originally published on Agência Pública's ...

Personalities from the entertainment world and international diplomats pressured the Legislative Assembly to pass a law that would permanently ban the exploitation of fossil fuels in Costa Rica. Mark ...

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Feb 15, 2007 — Exploring for oil and extracting it from the most regions in south Sudan has boosted the NIF regime’s income over the last two decades, however, it has also resulted in a bad health ...

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, speaks with National Electoral Council President Elvis Hidrobo Amoroso during the notification ceremony for the referendum about the future of a disputed ...