Study will collect data from over 2,000 hospitals in 135 countries - identifying areas for strengthening emergency care systems globally.

During their most recent annual landbird monitoring expedition on the island, teams from the Charles Darwin Foundation and Ecuador’s state ... of a species of gecko that was only known to ...

Noboa’s announcement has raised eyebrows in Ecuador. Former Army commander Luis Altamirano criticized the partnership, calling it “deplorable” that “they seek to hire the services of a ...

Any short adventure means bringing gear, water and food, and a daypack is the perfect balance of load-lugging with comfort and – in cases such as this Gecko from Mountain Designs – a full list of ...

The trail where Cyrtodactylus karanshahi, or Karan’s bent-toed geckos, were found. Photo from Santosh Bhattarai, shared by Akshay Khandekar As darkness seeped across the mountains of Nepal ...

As an electrical engineering student in 2013 at Grove City College, Pennsylvania, my buddy and I were backpacking when I saw a gecko climbing a shower wall. That image sparked the name for what ...

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean officials have told allies of U.S. President Donald Trump that they are interested in hosting a U.S. military base in the South American country ...

Quininde (Ecuador) (AFP) – An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency and order residents to ration drinking water.

They took a closer look at the animals, tested their DNA and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Cyrtodactylus chitwanensis, or the Chitwan bent-toed gecko. A Cyrtodactylus ...

Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias El Fito, is the leader of the feared Los Choneros criminal gang in Ecuador and escaped prison in January of last year. He broke out during a wave of violence that ...

A cleanup operation began on Tuesday in southern Ecuador after heavy rains caused the Malacatos and Zamora rivers to overflow. Floodwaters damaged multiple buildings, and a bridge collapsed ...

Among the proposals floated to Gonzalez by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the other groups are a halt to privatizations and large scale mining projects and ...