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

In the first story from Micélio Sumaúma – a Forest-Journalist Co-Training Program – Yudjá-Juruna reporters from Volta Grande do Xingu answer a question that ties violence to resistance, all at the same time

In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA Rodrigo Agostinho, the new president of Brazil’s environmental protection agency Ibama, says the “life of the river” will be paramount in deciding whether to extend the operation of the destructive dam on the Xingu. On the Petrobras application to explore for oil at the mouth of the Amazon river, he insists “every possible and imaginable impact” must first be examined.

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.

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.

Ever since Norte Energia, the hydroelectric operator, made the Xingu its private water tank, the river’s erratic flow has had a huge impact on the lives of human and non-human residents. Locals are now independently monitoring the Xingu’s behavior to help the government make the best decision on whether or not to renew the plant’s operating license.

Brazil’s president must decide whether to renew the operating license of the Amazon’s biggest and most catastrophic hydroelectric plant. His choice will determine the Workers’ Party’s legacy in the Amazon, and the fate of the Xingu River