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 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 ...

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 ...