The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...

The rupture of Ecuador's SOTE crude pipeline earlier this month spilled over 25,000 barrels of oil, the country's national ...

This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...

On Jan. 15, 2022, more than 11,000 barrels of oil spilled into the ocean off the Peruvian coast. It flowed from a pipeline ...

Peru’s Congress has voted to remove the interior minister from office after deciding that he had failed to adequately handle rising violent crime in the Andean country.

Peru’s congress fired the nation’s minister in charge of police on Friday, days after the murder of a popular singer once again raised alarm about a rise in deadly extortion rackets.

A green iguana rests above the letters spelling Ecopetrol at the headquarters of Colombia’s largest company, located in the ...

The spill was the latest crisis at Petroperú ... “I don’t think Peru would let their national oil company fail,” said Schreiner Parker, managing director for Latin America at Rystad Energy.

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency amid "unprecedented" damage and to order residents to ration drinking ...

PAITA, Peru, (Reuters) – A Peruvian fisherman who spent 95 days lost in the Pacific Ocean, eating roaches, birds and sea turtles to survive, is returning home to his family. Maximo Napa had set ...

But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills, speeding up the discovery of new species and uncovering how light pollution impacts marine life. Uncovering hidden oil ...

Dr Alex Lukyanov, from the University of Reading, a researcher on advanced mathematical models of oil spills, previously said the incident was “troubling” because it appeared to involve persistent oil ...