In 2005 the Brazilian Congress voted to revive the dam on the grounds that its energy was essential to the security of the rapidly growing nation. The Kayapo and other tribes affected by the plans ...

Brazil's environment ... of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, a controversial 17 billion US dollars project in the Amazon that has drawn criticism from native Indians and conservationists.

The collapse last month of a Vale dam in the same area unleashed an avalanche of mud killing an estimated 300 people in Brazil's deadliest mining disaster Around 200 residents were evacuated from ...

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...