Amazon Infrastructure News

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

Sarah Brown 28 Apr 2023

Dams or indigenous land: the battle over the Munduruku frontier

Ana Aranha 20 Feb 2015

Exclusive: Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous tribe

Ana Aranha 19 Feb 2015

Groups call on world leaders to stop incentives for big dams

Rhett A. Butler 9 Dec 2014

Brazilian tribes demarcate territory in bid to block dams

Rhett A. Butler 6 Nov 2014

Brazil cancels Tapajos dam auction due to indigenous concerns

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2014

Brazil’s planned Tapajós dams would increase Amazon deforestation by 1M ha

Rhett A. Butler 14 Sep 2014

Controversial Amazon dams may have exacerbated biblical flooding

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2014

Gold mine near controversial Belo Monte dam suspended

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2013

Judge halts construction of Amazon dam on Brazil’s Teles Pires river

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2013

Indigenous peoples resume occupation of Brazil’s Belo Monte dam site

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2013

Deforestation will undercut effectiveness of rainforest dams

Rhett A. Butler 13 May 2013

Tribesmen launch ‘occupy’ protest at dam site in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 3 May 2013

Dams are rapidly damning the Amazon

Rhett A. Butler 8 Dec 2012

Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for controversial Amazon rainforest dam

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2012

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett A. Butler 12 Nov 2009

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