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 ...

(Adds Eletrobras comment, march, police in paragraphs 6 and 7) By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA, May 21 (Reuters) - The construction of a proposed dam on Brazil's Xingu river will flood homes of 16,000 ...

Surrounded by soy fields and cattle pastures, Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory — still shrouded in rainforest — stand out like a green thumb in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state.