Upper Xingu News Today

Twenty artists, mostly non-western and indigenous, consider how dam projects, diamond mining, monoculture and other human interventions have affected their lands and way of life

The Amazon has long been considered home to Indigenous peoples, dating back thousands of years. They worked the land in ways we are familiar with today. They built ditches, ponds, wells and other structures that show the rainforest was not “untouched” as often mistakenly thought. Centuries later, these populations, and the societies they formed, were […]

A professor at the University of Florida, Michael Heckenberger has been visiting and studying Indigenous peoples at the Upper Xingu River for decades and says the Amazon is already facing its tipping point: “It’s a tipping event.”

The rich soil holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries by indigenous practices, a new study suggests. The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon’s land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the fores

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazons land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the forested vegetation, particul

For such a lush, verdant paradise, the Amazon rainforest's soil can be surprisingly barren.

A new study suggests patches of fertile soil in the Amazon, known as dark earth, were intentionally produced by ancient Amazonians as a way to improve the soil and sustain large and complex societies.

It all starts with a road. In Brazil, the federal government commissioned the construction of mule trails and telegraph lines to link their coastal cities with long-established settlements on remote Amazonian tributaries. In the Andes, communication between the highlands and the lowlands has occurred over millennia via trails that traverse the foothills using routes dictated […]

After 70 years of debates, the new satellite prospection technology LiDAR is showing the complexity of ancient urbanisms in the Amazonian region.

Art at Americas Society presents a roundtable with Marajoara artist Ronaldo Guedes, organized in conjunction with the current exhibition.