A June 17th judicial decision suspends the permission granted on February 8th by Brazil’s environmental agency to allow even more water to be diverted from the Xingu River. Even without the additional ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Response of the Arara People to the Norte Energia letter. Letter from the Arara People to the World We the Arara Indigenous People of the Iriri ...

This post is part of our special coverage Forest Focus: Amazon. Dilma Rousseff‘s government has just begun and it's already facing a virtual mobilization against it – and the issue is the environment.

Indigenous Brazilians at a meeting to demand consultation on the Belo Monte dam that would affect their communities (Photo courtesy Amazon Watch) BRASILIA, Brazil, August 16, 2012 (ENS) – A halt to ...

BRASILIA, Brazil, April 20, 2010 (ENS) – Today’s bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court ...

Belo Monte Scars Upon Mother Earth.. For nearly 30 years, Chief Raoni has fought tirelessly to stop The Belo Monte Dam being built in his beloved Amazon Rainforest. Tragically, this is now starting to ...

Londolfo Aranha Neto, 59, casts his net among treetops at the edge of the Belo Monte Dam reservoir, near Altamira, Brazil. He is among the thousands of fisher families displaced by the flooding of the ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Graft money skimmed from overpriced contracts to build the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon funded President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 election campaigns, a ruling ...

“The company wants to weaken us, undermine our strength and impoverish our fight, it wants to kill us slowly, leave us starving like it does with the Xingu River and the fish that inhabit the waters ...

* Auction to proceed mid-day Tuesday if injunction lifted * Environmental impact basis for injunction SAO PAULO, April 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's electric energy agency Aneel said late on Monday it had ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil (AP) — Edizangela Alves Barros believed that being forced to relocate to make way for a mammoth dam in Brazil’s Amazon would mean a brighter future for her family. Instead, their ...