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Ecuadorian architecture firm Natura Futura Arquitectura has completed the Stilts House, an elevated brick home that opens up to the outdoors with a perforated facade...

State oil company starts second phase of drilling in one of the world’s most biodiverse hotspots

Move represents a tiny proportion of world production, but could embolden others to rethink their commitment to cuts

Design firm Arquitectónica transformed an 18-story tower in Quito, Ecuador into a slender urban sculpture that twists upwards to meet the sky. The building's animated exterior is matched by a deep green interior designed...

Philippe Starck is one of the most influential designers of modern times - and he's applied his signature style and environmental ethos to develop a striking new residential building in Ecuador...

First of 200 wells drilled close to controversial block of forest known to have two of the last tribes living in isolation

Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano has been classified as active since 1999, and recent new explosions have ejected ash nearly five miles high into the sky...

Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano has been classified as active since 1999, and recent new explosions have ejected ash nearly five miles high into the sky...

Using locally sourced natural materials, the architects managed to build the structure that can be easily dismantled and transported to different climatic regions on Ecuador...

Using locally sourced natural materials, the architects managed to build the structure that can be easily dismantled and transported to different climatic regions on Ecuador...

Government spies may have illegally targeted political and environmental opponents to president Rafael Correa’s plan to extract oil in Yasuni national park

Ecuador is rich in natural resources and Pope Francis encouraged the people of Ecuador, on Tuesday, to keep it that way. Calling for the protection of the Amazon rain forest and the indigenous people, Pope Francis said that...

Company upset over short film that uses Pablo Neruda’s famous poem on how US corporations treated Latin American countries as empty ‘banana republics’

The mechanism developed to forgo exploiting oil in Yasuni national park in Ecuador can be applied worldwide

Tourists from around the world travel to Quilotoa, a 12,000-foot-high active volcano with a brilliant blue lake in its crater. Located about 100 miles away from Quito, a local indigenous community offers facilities to tourists...