Pinheiros River, São Paulo
Eight Belo Monte stories that Norte Energia failed to tell invited journalists
The hydroelectric complex on the Xingu River is a daily source of problems for Indigenous and other traditional peoples who face food insecurity. Almost ten years after the plant came onstream, Norte Energia hasn’t fully complied with environmental licensing requirements
A última Onça do Rio Grande do Sul
Em 2019, havia seis destes mais-que-humanes no Parque Estadual do Turvo. Seis anos depois, só resta o macho Yaboti para acusar o processo de extermínio
Nair Benedicto, the jaguar-photographer hunting extractivism
In the 1980s, she shot photos of the Serra Pelada catastrophe and investigated the destructive exploitation of the Amazon. At 85, she is opening her entire collection and teaching about the strength of the eye, of action, and of resilience
Dantes: The literary hothouse where ideas grow wild
A conversation with publisher Anna Dantes, whose ‘Selvagem’ collaboration with Indigenous thinker and writer Ailton Krenak draws on ancestral memory and Indigenous and scientific knowledge
Cows remain the untraceable victims of Amazon deforestation
A new study shows meatpacking exporters operating in the Legal Amazon do not map their indirect suppliers as the EU wants them to do. By postponing the Deforestation Regulation, each of these companies can contribute to deforestation of an area ten times the size of Paris
Far right gains in the Amazon: why do Nature’s destroyers win elections?
Militarism, agribusiness, evangelical Christianity, and links to criminal factions - SUMAÚMA examined why predatory political forces are consolidating their power ahead of the 2026 presidential race
‘The Forest really is a perfect society’
Photographer Araquém Alcântara talks to SUMAÚMA about his 50 years covering the Amazon and developing a spiritual relationship with the Forest, that is now being destroyed
Photographer Araquém Alcântara talks to SUMAÚMA about his 50 years covering the Amazon and developing a spiritual relationship with the Forest, that is now being destroyed