Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...
The Daily Northwestern

Brazilian Indigenous activist Tapi Yawalapiti talks life in Xingu Indigenous Park at NU

After traveling more than 35 hours by land, air and sea from Mato Grosso, Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazilian Indigenous activist and Chief Tapi Yawalapiti arrived on Northwestern’s Evanston ...
Yahoo

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Fires devastating the Amazon

Around the world: Wildfires devastate Indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous enterprises take center stage at Boorloo Trade Fair, and Volkswagen sells Xinjiang plant amid ...
AOL

‘Guardians of the forest’: How art made from the ashes of Amazon Rainforest fires is helping Indigenous communities

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...
Mongabay

Indigenous seed collectors grow a network of restoration across Brazil

Nearly 150 Indigenous seed collectors from the Amazonian Bioeconomic Seed Network, the first of its kind in the state of Rondônia, traveled to neighboring Mato Grosso state to meet with Brazil’s ...