Amazon Infrastructure News

The Amazon River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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

Sarah Brown 28 Apr 2023

“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 May 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Apr 2017

Brazil moves to cut Amazon conservation units by 1.2 million hectares

Sue Branford 19 Apr 2017

Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Apr 2017

Indigenous groups, Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Apr 2017

Rotten beef and illegal deforestation: Brazil’s largest meatpacker rocked by scandals

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2017

Residents celebrate in town square after the results of the vote were announced in Cajamarca, Colombia on March 26, 2017. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Villagers vote to ban ‘La Colosa’ gold mining project in Colombia

Bram Ebus 27 Mar 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Mar 2017

Santurban moorlands in Colombia. Photo by Grupo Areas Protegidas CORPONOR via Wikimedia Commons

World Bank exits controversial Angostura goldmine project in Colombian moorland

Bram Ebus 23 Mar 2017

Crime and not enough punishment: Amazon thieves keep stolen public land

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Mar 2017

2. The Belo Monte megadam, Pará state, northwestern Brazil. The dam cut off the Xingu River and reduced its flow by 80 per cent, December 2016. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay

Displaced by Brazil’s giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, ‘river people’ reoccupy reservoir

Maximo Anderson 13 Mar 2017

Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash diversion?

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Mar 2017

Logs burn at sunset in Bolivia. Photo by Jim Wickens/Ecostorm

Brazilian savanna and Bolivian rainforest at risk from soy production, says report

Maximo Anderson 8 Mar 2017

The changing face of Amazon development: from land grab to eco-lodge

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Feb 2017

Judge halts excavation plans for largest-ever Brazilian goldmine

Zoe Sullivan 22 Feb 2017

Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Feb 2017

Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change

Claire Salisbury 14 Feb 2017

Soy invasion poses imminent threat to Amazon, say agricultural experts

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Feb 2017

An in-depth look at Mongabay’s collaboration with The Intercept Brasil

Mike Gaworecki 7 Feb 2017

Brazil alters indigenous land demarcation process, sparking conflict

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2017

Battle for the Amazon: As Sinop grew, the Amazon rainforest faded away

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Feb 2017

Is Brazil green washing hydropower? The case of the Teles Pires dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Jan 2017

‘Day of Terror’: Munduruku village attacked by Brazil’s Federal Police

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 11 Jan 2017

The end of a People: Amazon dam destroys sacred Munduruku “Heaven”

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Jan 2017

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 Jan 2017

Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental agenda

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Dec 2016

Resource wars: Brazilian gold miners go up against indigenous people

Zoe Sullivan 15 Dec 2016

Brazil’s dispossessed: Belo Monte dam ruinous for indigenous cultures

Zoe Sullivan 8 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

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