Mineradoras da Noruega e da França são responsáveis por metade dos desastres ambientais de Barcarena
Município da Amazônia teve quase 30 acidentes em duas décadas, 16 deles ligados à norueguesa Norsk Hydro e à francesa Imerys – e moradores se assustam com a contaminação por metais pesados e o aumento de 636% nos casos de câncer entre 2000 e 2022
Norwegian and French companies turn Barcarena into a city of environmental disasters
The Amazonian municipality has had nearly 30 accidents in two decades, 16 of them connected to Norway’s Norsk Hydro and France’s Imerys, and residents fear contamination from heavy metals and a 636% spike in cancer cases from 2000 to 2022
Ibama specialists confirm environmental damage to the Xingu caused by Belo Monte
A report by Brazil’s environmental agency states that water captured by the hydropower plant has disrupted the lives of Indigenous peoples and traditional forest communities, killed trees and fish, and endangered the river
Belo Monte does to the Volta Grande region of the Xingu River what drought does to the Amazon
Since 2015, the sequestering of the river's water by the hydroelectric plant has interrupted lifecycles and killed thousands of fish, threatening food security for Indigenous and Ribeirinho peoples, with Brazil's environmental regulator failing to make a decision to stop the destruction
Belo Monte: forest and academia join to save Xingu
An alliance of traditional communities, Indigenous researchers and university scientists aims to produce reliable data to counter information presented by Norte Energia on the impacts of the hydroelectric plant
Belo Monte: peoples of the Volta Grande region call on Ibama to release the Xingu River
'Piracema Hydrogram,' an animation made in partnership with Indigenous peoples and ribeirinhos, shows how the hydroelectric plant’s sequester of 70% of the river's water has turned life into death in one of the Amazon's most biodiverse regions
Lula administration seeks ‘conciliatory solution’ for Waimiri Atroari genocide during military dictatorship
A report exclusively shown to SUMAÚMA shows chemical weapons were used in the massacre of eight villages in 1970 during the construction of highway BR-174. A retired colonel and Bolsonaro appointee has been appointed to a legal case against the federal government
Bruno’s exemplary achievements with indigenous communities must be respected
As the one-year mourning period comes to an end in Javari Valley villages, Beto Marubo fears Bruno Pereira's work will be undermined by Congress
The Munduruku woman indigenizing the world
Threatened with death in Brazil, Alessandra Korap is one of six activists from around the world whose work is recognized this Monday by the prestigious Goldman Prize for Environmentalism
‘No argument, no logic’ : Experts stunned by flimsy basis for Belo Monte hydrograph
At a seminar for senior government officials in Brasilia, researchers finally reveal the weak study on which the dam's operator Norte Energia has based its quota of 8,000 cubic meters per second for nature. They say this is dangerously inadequate for the important ecosystem and way of life of people who live on the river's 'Big Bend'.
