The Tocantins-Araguaia waterway is one of the Brazilian government’s priority projects for transporting soy, corn, meat, minerals and other commodities to ports in the Amazon Rainforest. The project ...

A federal court in Brazil has blocked the start of planned explosions along a 35-kilometer (22-mile) rock formation called Pedral do Lourenço in the Tocantins River, pausing a major infrastructure ...

Spread across 43 km (27 mi) of the Tocantins River, this rock formation is an obstacle to ship navigation during the dry season, from June to December, blocking the passage of boats coming from the ...