Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

Mongabay
Feb 6, 2023, 5:18 pm218 pts
TERRA FIRME, Brazil — Growing up, Maria de Fátima Batista often studied in the dark, using a candle or lantern for light because the riverine community where she lives in Brazil’s Amazon did not have electricity. Today, aged 58, Batista, her family and the rest of the Terra Firme community, which sits by…

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