Arriving in Ecuador was a little disaster to begin with. My flight from Venezuela to Quito was canceled. I spent my first night in Caracas, not knowing much Spanish and being completely lost at the ...

Tropical rainforests are home to almost two-thirds of all vertebrate species and three-quarters of all tree species: they are the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. However, over half ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know you can actually swim in the Amazon River? In Ecuador you can! In this video, Travel + Leisure guides you on an ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences' International Education Program will host a lunch-and-learn information session Tuesday, April 2, from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Jack, ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue in a rainforest of Ecuador and discovered a new species. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto As night fell across a rainforest ...

A cloud forest reserve was recently created in the Andes of southern Ecuador to help conserve the range-restricted Endangered Red-faced Parrot by improving its habitat connectivity. Endangered ...

When my youngest daughter was 25, she decided she wanted to do a mother-daughter thing. And trust me, Erin is not the mani-pedi type of kid. The morning after we arrived in Quito, Ecuador, we boarded ...

Ecuador is pushing to increase its production of crude oil but faces a backlash from environmentalists and Indigenous groups.