In Altamira, Pará, one of Brazil’s most deforested municipalities, big-leaf mahogany trees, Brazilian firetrees, and mango trees are poisoned and uprooted by residents to keep them from ‘messing up’ the roads
Associations are suspected of coopting traditional communities to continue destroying the forest by crafting supposedly legal operations wrapped in the name of ‘management plans’
The mental disconnect after a possible heat-related death at the artist’s concert shows we’ll wait for the house to burn down before doing anything to save ourselves
SUMAÚMA and New York University School of Law join forces to center the rights and perspectives of animal-people, plant-people, and fungi-people
The planet’s largest rainforest lacks water and clean air, the smoke from fires is overtaking regions of the Amazon, extreme events are multiplying and scientists are warning: we are entering ‘an unfamiliar domain that no one has ever witnessed in the history of humanity’
To stop genocide and global heating, we must explore other ways of understanding relations between species
To stop genocide and global heating, we must explore other ways of understanding relations between species
LiDAR surveillance by plane and the knowledge of traditional populations is helping Amazon archeologists to reconstruct the history of the human occupation of the rainforest, planted in part by original peoples but deemed uninhabited by governments in order to justify invasions and clearance
Those destroying nature and causing global heating have a name, oftentimes they have a corporate taxpayer ID, and even though we are staring down catastrophe, they keep swallowing up worlds in the forest
A search for beings that sustain the Earth in a forest nearing the point of no return