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Philip Fearnside

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Philip Fearnside

Biography

Philip Fearnside is an ecologist at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA) in Brazil. He has lived and worked in the Brazilian Amazon for more than 30 years and is one of the foremost authorities on deforestation in the world’s largest tropical forest.

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Caption: The Belo Monte Dam under construction on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, in 2015 (image: FabioNascimento/Greenpeace )

How a dam building boom is transforming the Brazilian Amazon

10 Oct - by Philip Fearnside 0 Comments

Brazil is in the midst of a hydropower boom that is flooding rainforest and displacing communities