Local communities in the Ecuadorean province of Esmeraldas were still protesting Tuesday after a major oil spill last week left some 500,000 residents with no access to drinking water, in addition ...

Employees of the state oil company Petroecuador were trying Saturday to contain the oil slick in the river that affected the area of Viche in the province of Esmeraldas. (AP Video by Cesar Olmos ...

A massive oil spill in Ecuador, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife refuge in thick, black sludge, impacting more than half a million residents.

The spill, believed caused when a landslide ruptured a major oil pipeline, has turned waters black in a section of the Esmeraldas River, in the province of the same name. The Emergency Operations ...

In March 2025, a devastating oil spill struck Ecuador’s Esmeraldas province in the northern part of the country, wreaking ...

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.

The crude has since spread from the Esmeraldas River, where it started, to at least four other waterways. About half-a-million people have been affected in one way or another, many cut off from ...