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Indigenous rights and environmental advocates are targeting the company's shareholders to stop it, saying Toronto-headquartered Belo Sun has made “misleading” claims to investors about its Volta Grande project. 

The Amazon rain forest is disappearing. We must help Brazil silence the chainsaws.

Arizona State University's independent student-run news organization covering Tempe, Phoenix, Mesa and Glendale.

On an iron grill, six catfish are almost ready to eat. Hilda Rodríguez crouches to move the firewood and stoke the fire. She flips over the inguiris — green bananas from the Amazon— that she is roasting next to a boiling pot of eggs. The six catfish, blackish and with thin tails, are the only […]

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the UN Convention on Biodiversitys 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, a group of international...

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:English: https://vimeo.com/781331507Spanish: https://vimeo.com/781334006Portuguese: https://vimeo.com/781371929LOS ANGELES, D...

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the UN Convention on Biodiversitys 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, a group of international...

Amazon Watch alleges Belo Sun has inadequately consulted the local Indigenous communities in Brazil. Find out more.

This issue takes us into the Mojave Desert, reminding us that landscapes too often dismissed as wastelands have always been home to Indigenous cultures and complex ecosystems. Our feature profiles artist Kim Stringfellow, who has devoted years to interrogating the desert’s history. We visit other unique landscapes, from the Great Basin’s vanishing sagebrush sea to Montana’s alpine peaks, where a strange pink algae is hastening the already rapid snowmelt. We ask uncomfortable questions: Aft...

Environmental licence for Panantza-San Carlos Mining Project rejected; Project overlapped Shuar Arutam territory but community not consulted