At least 45 others were missing. Authorities said the boat was travelling on the Xingu River when it sank late on Tuesday. The cause was not immediately clear. “Searches are continuing above and ...

sitting on a tree bough on the banks of a tributary to the Xingu River, which he fears is drying up due to agricultural use. “Our main challenge is to come together again to save our lands ...

Although opposition to the dam remains more international than local, a group of fisherman and tribal members of the Xingu River Lives Movement rowed up and down the river on Wednesday to block ...

Illegal mining has polluted the Xingu River, leaving residents without clean water. But for Wenatoa and other Amazon dwellers, there’s a glimmer of hope on the horizon: Newly elected Brazilian ...

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 ...

And on the other side of Brazil, in the valley of the Upper Xingu River, multiple ditches once enclosed large fortified settlements, linked by roads and causeways. These earthworks seem to be the ...

The vast hydroelectric complex—the fourth-largest in the world—completely upended the northern stretch of the Xingu River, one of the Amazon’s major tributaries. The waters held back by the ...

Here, a network of tight-knit families of rubber-tappers live scattered along the banks of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon and the lifeblood to thousands of indigenous and forest ...

“The company wants to weaken us, undermine our strength and impoverish our fight, it wants to kill us slowly, leave us starving like it does with the Xingu River and the fish that inhabit the waters ...

Scientists found an “armored” creature with yellow spots in caves of Xingu River and discovered a new species, a study says. Photo from Leandro M. Sousa In the murky waters of a river in ...

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 ...