Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration
Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Brazil's attitude to its rainforest Karen Hoffmann | 15th August 2011 News Rainforest Brazil Mining Hydropower Water Energy amazon.jpg When completed, the …
ELISA HORNETT and RITA MENDONCA report on a life-affirming canoe expedition along Brazil’s Xingu River to visit communities who say their land and livelihoods have been violated by the building of a hydroelectric plant
… on the other. We were warned about the fierce mosquitoes that would soon arrive. We had …