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A pilgrimage to the workers’ utopia of Fordlândia, named after the founder of the Ford Motor Company, turned into a nightmare

The past two decades saw a massive increase in hydropower across the Pan Amazon. The Brazilian government has scaled back investment in mega-scale hydropower projects but continues to pursue development of medium and large-scale projects. Cost overruns at hydropower dams across the world have exposed them as poor investments, and the national development bank (BNDES) […]

It took several days of observation before researchers and local fishermen found the best way to catch the Amazon river dolphins they were studying in the largest lake in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve, deep in the Brazilian Amazon. The lake, part of this 2.35-million-hectare (5.8-million-acre) conservation unit in the state of Amazonas, is fed […]

Rituraj Sapkota is a Whakaata Maōri videographer, journalist and foreign correspondent Brazil: Iza Majahua Tapuia is on a boat on Rio Tapajós, a major...

Valdir Ferreira, the informal owner of a gold mining operation for the last 15 years, is unimpressed by the hydraulic shovel that methodically scours the forest floor in search of the gold hidden (...)