Nicholas Loughlin When two European tourists arrived in Ecuador's Quijos valley in the 1850s and 1860s, they described its landscape as dense, impenetrable and "unpeopled by the human race".

More access to weapons, heightened impunity, and the atomization of gangs are leading to more mass killings in Ecuador's ...

Oil infrastructure paved way for a disastrous industrial and agricultural landscape polluted by the hazardous waste management of the oil ... The history of oil is full of criminality, corruption, ...

However, it wasn't until they began viewing the Ecuadorian landscape using airborne lidar (light detection and ranging) — in which thousands of infrared laser pulses are reflected repeatedly off ...