Ecuadorian indigenous groups hope innovation will reduce amount of oil taken from forest only to be brought back as pollution A canoe slides noiselessly upstream through a landscape of luminous bright ...

TENA, Ecuador, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ecuador's rainforest Achuar people say their ancestors long dreamed of a "fire canoe" or "electric fish" that would let them move swiftly along ...

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it's not just to save money on fuel — the... Shortly after sunrise, the students of Barrio San Luis ...

A solar-powered canoe, just the second of its kind, is scheduled for launch around April 20 in the village of Sharamentsa on the Pastaza River in the Ecuadorean Amazon. The canoe is part of a project ...

Now, the arrival of solar-powered boats is turning an old myth into a modern reality. Three solar boats - an Achuar design topped with protective roofs covered in solar panels - now ply a 67-kilometre ...

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TENA, Ecuador — Ecuador’s rainforest Achuar people say their ancestors long dreamed of a “fire canoe” or “electric fish” that would let them move swiftly along the region’s winding rivers, to more ...