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

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Hydropower threatens Bolivian indigenous groups and national park

Eduardo Franco Berton/RAI 5 Oct 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

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

Zoe Sullivan 13 Sep 2016

Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

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

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

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

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

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

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

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

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016

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

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Claire Salisbury 4 May 2016

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

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

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

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

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

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016

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

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

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

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Mar 2016

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

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

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

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

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