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24/5/2013
Deforestation may lead to electricity shortages in tropical rainforest regions that rely heavily on hydropower, as fewer trees mean less rainfall for hydropower generation, a study shows.For example, if deforestation continues, one of the ...
14/5/2013
Deforestation in the
Amazon region could significantly reduce the amount of electricity produced from hydropower, says a new study.
Scientists say the rainforest is critical in generating the streams and rivers that ultimately turn ...
13/5/2013
Deforestation may significantly decrease the hydroelectric potential of tropical rainforest regions, warns a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The study, led by Claudia M. Stickler at the ...
3/5/2013
Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric
dam for two days.
Some 200 people from various indigenous groups occupied one of ...
17/4/2013
A federal court in Brazil has suspended the use of military and police personnel during technical research on the controversial São Luíz do Tapajós
Dam in the Brazilian
Amazon. The military and police were brought in to stamp down protests from ...
8/4/2013
An
Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by
dam builders.
The Munduruku indigenous group in Para state say they have been betrayed by ...
6/4/2013
While global warming is a topic of conversation and news coverage every day around the world,? ?the basic raw materials that drive the global economy are rarely discussed as being involved.? ?But these materials play a key role in global ...
3/4/2013
An
Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after a military incursion into their land by
dam builders.
The Munduruku indigenous community in Para state say they have been betrayed by the ...
14/3/2013
Leaders of more than two dozen Kayapó indigenous communities have rejected a $9 million offer from Brazilian state energy company Eletrobras to fund development projects in their region due to the the firm's involvement in the construction of the ...
12/2/2013
When it is completed in 2015, the Jirau hydroelectric
dam will span 8km across the Madeira river and feature more giant turbines than any other
dam in the world. Then there are the power lines, draped along 2,250km of forests and fields to carry ...
23/1/2013
Jerky mobile phone footage shows men carrying the inert body of a young man, surrounded by distraught, weeping women. Their wailing is clearly audible, as are the shrieks of a pet monkey which scurries in and out of the crowd.
At least ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
30/11/2012
Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES) on Monday announced it has approved a $10.8 billion (22.5 billion Brazilian reais) loan to the consortium that is building the controversial
Belo Monte dam in the state of Par´ in the heart of the ...
13/11/2012
Work on Brazil's controversial $13 billion
Belo Monte mega-dam ground to a halt Monday after protesters torched buildings at three
dam construction sites over the weekend, the developer said.
Aerial of an area in Altamira, Para state, ...
24/8/2012
Belo Monte dam developer Norte Energia, S.A. has stopped all work on the
Belo Monte dam after receiving formal notification of the decision last week by the Brazilian Federal Appeals Court to suspend the project, reports International Rivers. ...
20/8/2012
The Sete Quedas or "seven waterfalls" on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the
Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous groups.
But the ...
17/8/2012
Opponents of the world's biggest new hydroelectric project - the
Belo Monte dam in Brazil - notched up a rare victory this week, when a federal appeals court ordered construction to be suspended until indigenous groups are properly consulted ...
16/8/2012
Opponents of the world's biggest new hydroelectric project - the
Belo Monte dam in Brazil - notched up a rare victory this week, when a federal appeals court ordered construction to be suspended until indigenous groups are properly consulted ...
15/8/2012
A federal judge in Brazil has suspended construction work on a massive
dam in the heart of the
Amazon rainforest.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Judge Souza Prudente said that work could only resume on the $11bn, 11,000MW
Belo Monte ...
15/8/2012
A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the
Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian
Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the
dam, the ruling is the latest in ...
15/8/2012
A Brazilian judge has ordered a suspension of the controversial
Belo Monte dam project, saying that local indigenous people who will be affected by the massive hydroelectric project were not sufficiently consulted during the environmental ...
4/8/2012
Ivo Lubrinna has been wildcatting for gold in the jungle here for more than 30 years. It's a notoriously messy business, as crews strip away topsoil in the forest and along riverbanks and use mercury and other pollutants to draw precious metal ...
26/7/2012
Three engineers are being held hostage by the Juruna and Arara indigenous tribes as tensions rise over the on-going construction of the
Belo Monte dam in Brazil, reports the Indigenous rights NGO
Amazon Watch. The company building the
dam, Norte ...
3/7/2012
As of Tuesday, the occupation of
Belo Monte dam by indigenous tribes entered its 13th day. Indigenous people, who have fought the planned Brazilian
dam for decades, argue that the massive hydroelectric project on the Xingu River will devastate ...
1/7/2012
A confrontation between the insatiable appetite for energy and the enduring need for habitability is under way in Brazil as it moves aggressively to harness the power of its rivers with plans for dozens of hydroelectric
dams.Such projects ...