Amazon Infrastructure News

Ecuadorian farmers protest against a new environmental consultation process and an open-pit mine

Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises

Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Making room in the Atlantic Forest for the largest primate in the Americas

New transport infrastructure is opening the Amazon to global commerce

As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Freight train project that railroads Indigenous rights still on track

Brazil’s BR-319: Politicians capitalize on the Manaus oxygen crisis to promote a disastrous highway (Commentary)

Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: Greenwashing contested (commentary)

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Bailique: Why these islands in the Amazon Delta are falling into pieces

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Brazil green recovery plan could boost economy, add jobs, cut emissions: Report

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