The National Water and Basic Sanitation Agency (ANA) explained that the Madeira, Purús, Tapajós, and Xingu Rivers are all tributaries of the Amazon River. At the same time, the Paraguay River ...

Researchers visited the Xingu River several times between 1994 and 2017 to survey wildlife, according to a study published ...

Equipped with oxygen hoses, divers plunged into the depths of a river in northern Brazil. They swam through the dark water looking for “assacu-preto,” a thorny black fish sold in the aquarium ...

The Volte Grande Project on the Xingu river is destined to be Brazil’s largest open-pit goldmine. But activists fear the environmental impact on indigenous communities.

This model used data from the “Mercury Observatory” on the distribution and accumulation of the metal in the four basins of the Tapajós River (Pará, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas); the Xingu ...

His home village of Metuktire, named after his clan belonging to the Kayapo people, is accessible chiefly by boat along the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. Chief Raoni Metuktire is the ...

These trees will become piles of logs as vast tracts of rainforest are cleared to make way for one of the Xingu River dams. Controversial plans have gone ahead in spite of bitter opposition and ...