XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) – When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird ...

The paved highway petered out more than 100 miles back, but roadside billboards still sprout across a landscape of interminable green fields — proclaiming the presence of multinational agribusiness ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — About 100 Indians, fishermen and other activists opposed to a huge hydroelectric dam being built on the Xingu river in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are occupying one of its ...

(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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

MP: “Really? I know the Amazon a bit. Where in the Amazon?” KB: “With a small tribe of Indians—the Waurá. There are only a few hundred of them.” MP: “I came back from their territory just five days ...