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Pritam Das,, ,Faisal Hossain,, ,Hörður Bragi Helgason,, ,Shahzaib Khan, and ,The Conversation

NASA images reveal a man-made scar in the Amazon so big you can see it from space


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, transportation, and water for trees and plants.

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