The Tapajós River, a lifeline in Brazil’s Amazon basin, has reached historically low levels this year amid an unprecedented ...

By Flávio Montiel, Manager, Brazil Program  Text in Portuguese follows below Every visit to Santarém, along the banks of the ...

Brazil is the world’s leading country in hydroelectricity, but the new five dams planned for the Tapajós River will have an ingenious construction system: they will operate with platforms ...

See All Key Ideas SÃO PAULO — After years of delays in protecting the Munduruku Indigenous people from illegal gold mining and mercury use decimating the Tapajós River Basin, Brazil’s ...

It extends into nine countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador ... is the first scientific attempt to measure the size of Amazon River dolphin populations in the Tapajos River basin. “Species ...

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 ...