How Indigenous Communities Are Powering a Cleaner Future in the Amazon

How Indigenous Communities Are Powering a Cleaner Future in the Amazon

An elderly Indigenous man guides his silent, solar-powered canoe through an igarapé — one of the rainforest’s countless watery veins, a path known more by memory than by map. Lush vegetation paints the dark water in its reflection. The only sound is the gentle lapping against the hull. But as the channel widens, breaking the jungle’s embrace, the horizon opens to reveal a different world. A colossal concrete dam now dominates the landscape — a s…