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

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Brazil’s Senate could soon be voting against the country’s environmental safeguards

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil 8 Feb 2016

A railroad that crosses the Amazon could be an infeasible, expensive dream for Peru

Barbara Fraser 4 Feb 2016

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

Claire Salisbury 14 Jan 2016

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Sue Branford 13 Jan 2016

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Jennifer Huizen 28 Dec 2015

Brazil’s government charged with ethnocide in building of Amazon dam

Damming the Amazon: new hydropower projects put river dolphins at risk

Claire Salisbury 15 Dec 2015

Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops

Sue Branford 9 Nov 2015

Brazil poised to break global moratorium on GM Terminator seeds

Sue Branford 20 Oct 2015

Belo Monte dam denied operating license by Brazilian regulators

Mike Gaworecki 25 Sep 2015

Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Julian Smith 27 Aug 2015

David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win

Saul Elbein 27 Jul 2015

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2015

Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2015

It can be done! – Building better dams in the Andean Amazon

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 18 Jun 2015

Tapajós and other Amazon dams not sustainable development say reports

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jun 2015

151 dams could be catastrophic to Amazon ecological connectivity

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 10 Jun 2015

Proposed Andean headwater dams an ecological calamity for Amazon Basin

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2015

Cajamarca: Let them Eat Gold

Veronica Goyzueta 3 Jun 2015

Peru eyes the Amazon for one of world’s most powerful dams

David Hill 18 May 2015

Brazilian firm’s mega-dam plans in Peru spark major social conflict

David Hill 11 May 2015

Giant Amazonian catfish threatened by dams

Sandhya Sekar 1 May 2015

Peru’s mega-dam projects threaten Amazon River source and ecosystem collapse

David Hill 28 Apr 2015

Featured video: ‘A river in dispute’ documentary explores how a planned dam in the Amazon is affecting traditional communities

Agência Pública 15 Apr 2015

Here comes progress: what will planned megaprojects mean for an Amazon city?

Bruno Fonseca 31 Mar 2015

Nobody listened to them: fishing communities to be displaced by dams want a say in their future

Ana Aranha And jessica Mota 30 Mar 2015

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