He hopes to drum up media attention and help halt the construction of the world’s third largest dam, the $19 billion Belo Monte. Caty Enders caught up with de Rothschild at his home in Los ...

The world's third largest hydroelectric dam is currently being built in the Amazon of Brazil. For the government, the Belo Monte dam is a necessity. For roughly 20,000 people living in the ...

Belo Monte dam developer Norte Energia, S.A. has stopped all work on the Belo Monte dam after receiving formal notification […] Brazil’s Supreme Court overruled the Federal Appeals Court’s ...

Courtesy of Google Earth. A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly ...

This is the scene at the opening phase of the building of the largest and most expensive project in Brazil, and one of the most controversial projects in Latin America: The Belo Monte Dam ...

It’s the latest twist in a long-brewing battle between the Brazilian government and local indigenous communities over the Belo Monte dam. The government has backed the construction of what would ...

Vale's interest in Belo Monte is not surprising, nor is it new. The company runs 9 hydroelectric dams in Brazil and three in Indonesia, including the new, and small 90 megawatt Karebbe dam.

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 state of Pará is to be home to the proposed Belo Monte Dam. Nonetheless, we deliberately chose not to discuss the dam. Feelings run so strongly on both sides of the issue that it seemed ...

After a quarter-century of plans and protests and construction and more protests, the Belo Monte dam complex on a tributary of the Amazon River in north-central Brazil will start generating power next ...

It’s the latest twist in a long-brewing battle between the Brazilian government and local indigenous communities over the Belo Monte dam. The government has backed the construction of what would ...