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 ...

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"Avatar" director James Cameron recently traveled to Brazil's Xingu River to bring attention to a dam the government plans to build there. That dam would be the world's third largest, and would ...

It’s the Cinemanifest Destiny of courageous white people to save the natives of unexplored territories from the ravages of the other white people, who are historically greedy for land, gold, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3 billion hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, rock ...

(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 ...