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 ...

In the film, Paddington discovers a knotted string bracelet said to contain an ancient secret. Far from being ropy Holywood nonsense, this hidden language really did exist.

Maloca is the name given to the houses where indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest live, settled in regions of the ...