Climate justice activists and Indigenous representatives staged a protest on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, inside the UN climate ...

Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.

Today as much as 80 percent of the water flow is gone. That’s because, in late 2015, the massive Belo Monte Dam project began redirecting water from the Xingu River upstream from the Big Bend ...

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil’s Amazon, used to flood the river’s forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and ...

“We belonged to the river, to the forest. We were happy. We were rich.” The Belo Monte dam represents the extractivism that has dominated Brazilian politics, on the Left and the ...

Today, as much as 80% of the water flow is gone. That’s because in late 2015, the massive Belo Monte Dam project began redirecting water from the Xingu River upstream from the Big Bend ...

Brazil's environmental agency has ordered the operators of the Belo Monte hydro dam to increase the outflow into the Xingu River this month due to environmental and local community concerns ...

SAO PAULO — The consortium that owns the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Amazon is asking Brazil’s government to reconsider an order to increase water outflow from its massive dam, which will ...

[SÃO PAULO] The promises of regional economic development pinned to the building of the Belo Monte hydroelectric complex, in northern Brazil, have failed to materialise. Instead, the population of ...

The controversial Belo Monte mega-dam in Pará state has done significant socio environmental harm to the Xingu River and the indigenous and traditional people living beside it. Now it appears the ...

She used to live by the Xingu River. Today, it is the site of the Belo Monte dam, a colossus built with enough concrete and steel to make 22 Eiffel Towers. Boats crossing the river beside it look ...

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 ...