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Satellites over the Amazon capture the choking of the ‘house of God’ by the Belo Monte Dam – they can help find solutions, too

  • Written by Pritam Das, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington
Satellites over the Amazon capture the choking of the ‘house of God’ by the Belo Monte Dam – they can help find solutions, tooNASA's Landsat satellites have been monitoring changes on Earth's landscape for 50 years.NASA illustration

The Xingu River is revered as the “house of God” by the Indigenous people living along its Volte Grande, or Big Bend, in the Brazilian Amazon. The river is essential to their culture and religion, and a crucial source of fish,...

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