By Tiago da Mota e Silva On Feb. 17, 2016, the gears ground into life at the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, on the ...

Davis Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK — 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 feathers, they join in ...

“Mongabay.com’s new series ‘Last Chance to See’ will attempt to highlight wild places on the verge of disappearing or being changed irrevocably.” Early morning fishing on the Xingu River. Photo ...

The Xingu River will never be the same. Construction of Belo Monte Dam has begun in the Brazilian Amazon, as shown by these photos taken by Greenpeace, some of the first images of the hugely ...

LITTLE ROCK — It was almost eight years ago when this column first reminisced on Mr. Drinkies’ post-adolescent sojourn in Brazil, the one where he learned how to drink Caipirinhas and Cuba Libres and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global business and investing in emerging markets. Brazil's Arara tribe in Para state, home to the monstrous Belo ...

"Nothing happens by chance in Xingu." The motto of the Villas Bôas brothers, explorers of central Brazil in the 1940s who created the project for the Xingu National Park, was taken by the team that ...

PROTESTERS in paint and headdresses in Brasília, warring tribes of lawyers and a mountain of pig dung: yet another giant Brazilian public-works contract was up for grabs, and the lobbies were restless ...

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 ...

When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation in the Amazon, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird feathers, they join in ceremonial ...