Guatemala’s government imposed martial law and a dusk to dawn curfew Sunday and filled the town of 20,000 residents with security forces. ... Protesters contend the operation pollutes Lake Izabal.

By far the largest in the country at nearly 590 square kilometers (227 square miles), Lake Izabal is home to manatees (Trichechus manatus Linnaeus) and also nearby oil palm and mining conflicts ...

A German expedition team assembled to find a lost $290 million Maya treasure allegedly submerged underneath Guatemala’s Lake Izabal has returned home empty-handed, but controversy continues to ...

In 2002, Mejía and a handful of teachers, fisherman, environmentalists, a local physician and other citizens took on Shell Oil, which had a concession to drill right through the bottom of the lake.

So start whittling them down now. Because Cassa Zenda, a new private waterfront villa located on the banks of Lake Izabal in Guatemala’s Rio Dulce region is your new 16-person hideaway for group ...

Nancy Dryden, recovering in a hospital in the seaside town of Morales, said that four men boarded their boat Aug. 9 while it was anchored in Lake Izabal, Guatemala's largest lake near the country ...

SPONSORED -- Guatemala’s landscape inspired Maya legends, and it continues to make an indelible impression. You’ll see why when you visit Lake Atitlán, coffee ...

River-trippers continue to Lake Izabal and its surrounding ecosystem of mangroves and tropical forest, all part of the 80-square-mile Biotopo Chochon Machacas Reserve.

Located near Guatemala's Caribbean coast, Lake Izabal is popular among tourists for its jungle scenery and wildlife. In March, ...

WASILLA - Sutton resident Nancy Dryden is recovering in a private Guatemalan hospital today after she and her husband were attacked aboard their sailboat in Lake Izabal in Guatemala on Saturday ...