Amazon Infrastructure News

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Hydropower threatens Bolivian indigenous groups and national park

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Operation license for Amazon’s Belo Monte mega-dam suspended

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

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