The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and ...

The waters of the Amazon rainforest are fast becoming ground zero in the battle between development and the environment. The Brazilian government wants to harness the hydroelectric power potential of ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.

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 ...

Indigenous people of the Munduruku tribe on Friday staged a protest at the entrance of the Blue Zone at the ongoing COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is demanding an emergency meeting ...

Introduction -- Chief's speech : Wauja ancestors, political authority, and belonging -- Bringing spirits : ritual curing and Wauja relations with spirits -- Kuri sings : intergroup rivalry and ...

Parotocinclus kwarup, new species, is described as a new hypoptopomatine cascudinho from tributaries of the upper Xingu River in the Amazon basin of Brazil. The new species is distinguished from its ...

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1948. "The tribes of the upper Xingu River." In Handbook of South American Indians: The Tropical Forest tribes. 321–348. 143 in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins.