In the rural community of Jangada, in the municipality of ​​Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the water that supplies local families comes from springs that emerge onsite. In a Youtube video ...

Researchers from universities in Brazil and Spain tested bananas, cassava and cocoa pulp grown in soil affected by the ...

A hydroelectric dam impacting Brazil’s Amazonas and Rondônia states have slashed fished populations by as much as 90% in some locations, according to a new a study based on on-the-ground research in ...

The concentrations of lead and other toxic elements exceed FAO limits for children and could pose long term health issues.

Researchers investigating crops grown in soil contaminated by the 2015 mining disaster in Brazil discovered that toxic metals are moving from the earth into edible plants. Bananas, cassava, and cocoa ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...

Australian mining giant BHP will face trial before a British court from April next year to determine how much it must pay in damages to victims of a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, lawyers said Wednesday ...

Before it became one of the most powerful hydroelectric plants on Earth, the Itaipu Dam stood where the roaring Guairá Falls once thundered across the Brazil–Paraguay border. In the early 1980s, ...