Majestic guayacan trees attract tourists and locals with annual display of brilliant yellow blossoms in Ecuador. Gavino Garay reports. I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's Christmas ...

Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis begin their school run. Around a dozen girls and boys, wearing backpacks and carrying notepads in hand, hop down the muddy river bank and into ...

Remember the Lorax, the huffy, scruffy spokesman for the trees in the Dr. Seuss book of the same name? The Lorax spoke for the trees against the depredations of the Once-ler, who was bent on taking ...

2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge. In May ...

Ecuador's combative leftist president is so concerned about the environment that he is threatening to force the country's newspapers to go all-digital as a way to save paper. Rafael Correa has long ...

Earlier this year, we reported: Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. But there's a complication: The park sits on top of the equivalent of millions of barrels ...

In tropical mountains, trees are the dominant life form from sea level to above 4,000-m altitude under highly variable thermal conditons (range of mean annual temperatures: <8 to > 28°C). How ...