Social movements seem to have learned to deal with Lula
The nearly 30,000 people who occupied Belém during the Amazon Summit are breathing down the president's neck, showing the difference between supporting the government – with conditions – and being with a government unconditionally – a healthy step in democratic maturity
Don’t be fooled by Lula’s “progressive denialism”
It is past time for the generation of leaders shaped in the 20th century to end their love affair with oil
The real Brazil Risk
As long as we fail to understand that the environment - rather than the economy - is everything, we will continue to race toward self-extinction
Don’t talk to us about ‘governability.’ That excuse is bathed in blood
President Lula must resist efforts in Congress to diminish environmental governance. The Chamber and the Senate are dominated not by conservatives, but by predators. They are on the wrong side of the war against nature.
If Lula sacrifices the environment, his government is over
Between heavy fire from a predatory Congress and friendly fire from the government leader in the Souse of Representatives, Marina Silva and the ministry she leads are suffering their first major attack. But it’s not just about Marina. It’s about our children and our existence on this planet-house.
On the ground, it’s harder
The destroyers of the Amazon and of all the biomes are working together to keep their losses to a bare minimum under the new government and are already taking their first steps towards the 2026 election
The ruined lives of the doctors who saved the Yanomami
When they figured out that taking care of Indigenous health means taking care of the health of the forest, by impeding illegal mining, Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves became the targets of political scheming, with bureaucracy serving as a weapon
Lula’s opportunity for redemption in the Amazon: Belo Monte
The operating licence of the calamitous hydroelectric plant is up for renewal, offering a chance for the Workers Party government to correct the mistakes made in the past.
Marina: ‘Petrobras can’t continue as an oil company’
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, Marina Silva, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of Brazil, discusses oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon and the renewal of the operating license for the disastrous Belo Monte hydroelectric plant.
Fighting for justice for Bruno Pereira with power and hope
For the first time since her husband was murdered, Beatriz Matos returned to the Javari Valley on Monday. this time as head of the department responsible for uncontacted peoples. In this exclusive interview with Sumaúma, Beatriz says she blames Bruno's murder on the negligence of former president Jair Bolsonaro and his appointees, who allowed organised crime to proliferate in the region.
