Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans for an oil mega-project at the mouth of the Amazon river. Ahead of ...

A: We talked when he (Lula) was sworn in. I asked him not to repeat what he did in the past, when he built the Belo Monte dam (in the northeastern state of Para, with a significant environmental ...

such as Belo Monte on the Xingu river. It was only after construction of this particular dam that the huge cost – financial, social and environmental – was fully revealed. That’s one reason ...