Since 2016, when the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam began operating on Brazil’s Xingu River, the Volta Grande, “an 80-mile stretch of river and seasonally flooded forest that is a global biodiversity ...

It was sunny when I first walked into the University of Colorado Boulder. I had come from far away—from Brazil’s heartlands—to share what a community-based native seed collection network looks like in ...

As pastures and thirsty crops dry up the Amazon, Indigenous people try to adapt traditional farming methods. The deep timbre ...

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