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 ...

Marcio Lobao, the son of former Workers Party senator and energy minister Edison Lobao, had already been publicly targeted by police in 2017 for the case related to the Belo Monte dam, as part of ...

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 ...

Belo Monte hydropower facility on the Xingu ... BNDES has provided loans totalling 80 percent of the total cost of the dam, R$15.2 billion (US$3.8 billion), a bill largely footed by Brazilian ...

For more than two weeks indigenous activists and allies have shut down construction of part of the controversial Belo Monte Dam in Brazil, demanding an end to the project or for the compensation ...

As one of Argentina’s worst mining disasters unfolded above Domingo Jofré’s home, the company responsible remained silent while a million liters of cyanide-laced water spewed into local ...

An undocumented mother is now in federal custody along with her undocumented son after ICE detained them, sending shockwaves through a family in El Monte, California. The family says the mother ...