State of emergency to allow government to send more money, people to help bring blazes under control, minister says.

Ecuador on Monday declared a national emergency due to water shortages, drought and forest fires that have consumed more than 10,000 hectares in the south of the country so far this month.

Ecuador's government declared a 60-day national emergency due to raging forest fires made worse by severe drought conditions, the country's risk management secretariat announced in a statement on ...

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Wednesday halted ... Noboa insisted that the wave of fires shaking his country was a tragedy “as a country, not as a government or as a municipality, but as ...

The consequences of climate change are already taking a toll in Latin America, with an extended drought. A worst-case ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison rose to 17, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the goriest prison episode under ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A fight among inmates has left at least 15 people dead and 14 injured at Ecuador's largest prison, authorities said Tuesday. The Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal city of ...