Fossil fuels are the challenge at this year’s climate conference, but the slow pace of negotiations has socioenvironmental and antiracist movements frustrated, as deaths due to the impacts of global heating mount across the planet
Tree-Person
The ipe tree who provided shelter and love in the Amazon – then became a table in New York. Dead at 53, H.s. left behind countless children and thousands of friends who were woven into her warm and welcoming life
For a
more-than-human
world
SUMAÚMA and New York University School of Law join forces to center the rights and perspectives of animal-people, plant-people, and fungi-people
Despite failing to meet legal requirements, the U.S.-based corporation operates two ports exporting soy from Pará. Now it wants to build a third. Though the project has not yet left the drawing board, the Public Prosecutor’s Office suspects the proposed site around the Abaetetuba islands was irregularly acquired
This new series on the Amazonian impact of cross-border companies is being debuted to mark the one-year anniversary of our platform
What does the
disappearance
of the Amazon
have to do with the
disappearance
of Venice?
Our reporters documented the indignity experienced by those who, with their lives threatened when they place their bodies on the front line in the war against nature, are forced to leave their territories, facing all kinds of hardships and humiliations within the programs that are supposed to protect them
The brutal spectacle of a Congress betraying the future
A report exclusively shown to SUMAÚMA shows chemical weapons were used in the massacre of eight villages in 1970 during the construction of highway BR-174. A retired colonel and Bolsonaro appointee has been appointed to a legal case against the federal government
Anti-Marina politicians in Amapá spread disinformation over Amazon oil drilling plans
What will the agribusiness lobby do next?
Anthropologist Caio Pompeia, explains how Brazil’s leading agriculture industry think tank strengthened the political influence of the country’s farming sector and how it is planning to respond to the election of Lula.
Right wing and agribusiness flock to former communist in Altamira
SUMAÚMA publishes an exclusive story of a Venezuelan woman who came to Brazil at the age of twenty-seven after experiencing continuous violence in her home country. She spent time in 2021 and 2022 as a prostitute in five mining encampments in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Her memories and drawings, recorded in small notebooks, give voice to the stories of many women who balance the thin line between money and brutality.
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
The doctors punished for an indigenous health revolution
Choquei, Parente!
Brazil has an
indigenous minister
‘No argument, no logic’ : Experts stunned by flimsy basis for Belo Monte hydrograph
Gold and Beef: Ronaldo’s recipe for disaster
Former Brazil striker claims he ate gold leaf steak with current members of the national team to inspire people, but his choice could hardly have been worse
Nature or Money? A look behind new biodiversity superpower pact
The recent pact between Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia raises hopes for tropical conservation but there are concerns it may be overly focussed on carbon credits. Sumaúma looks at the origins of this new front in nature diplomacy for clues about which way it will go
Vale’s railway
to oblivion
Raoni wants to
meet with Lula
Lula, listen to the
non-human peoples
In the third part of our Nature in Power series, SUMAÚMA brings you voices for those that are never heard, although they are most affected by the planet’s dominant species