Since 2016, when the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam began operating on Brazil’s Xingu River, the Volta Grande, “an 80-mile stretch of river and seasonally flooded forest that is a global biodiversity ...

Members of the Yarang Women’s Movement in Brazil have collected 3.2 tons of seeds over the past decade. The native seeds are sold to rural landowners and organizations to help replenish forests that ...

The Xingu River is revered as the “house of God” by the Indigenous people living along its Volte Grande, or Big Bend, in the Brazilian Amazon. The river is essential to their culture and religion, and ...

On August 26 the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, signed a decree that transfers the concession to harness the hydroelectric potential of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, in the ...

Damming of the Xingu River has begun in Brazil to make way for the eventual construction of the hugely controversial, Belo Monte dam. The Norte Energia (NESA) consortium has begun building coffer dams ...

Scientists found an “armored” creature with yellow spots in caves of Xingu River and discovered a new species, a study says. Photo from Leandro M. Sousa In the murky waters of a river in Brazil, an ...

Brazil's environmental agency has ordered the operators of the Belo Monte hydro dam to increase the outflow into the Xingu River this month due to environmental and local community concerns, a ...

If you’re ever in the Xingu River (a tributary of the Amazon River) in Brazil, look into the fresh flowing water! You might spot one of the endemic spotted rays that call this area home- the Xingu ...

Results are presented on species richness and distribution of the crustacean fauna obtained by iXingu Project expeditions along the middle and lower Xingu River during low and high water seasons ...