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Planet in Collapse  — 
The river in my village turned green – I was horrified to discover why

In the Xipaya Indigenous Territory, the Iriri River is suffering the effects of climate change, as its waters change color and its fish die. We Indigenous people are living in a time of uncertainty

Other Voices  — 
Dreaming of better worlds

An invitation to recapture the power of the images and voices living inside us and use them as a strategy for forging community and addressing the climate collapse

Collapse  — 
The Amazon of Fungi

A search for beings that sustain the Earth in a forest nearing the point of no return

Journalism from the center of the world
FRONTLINE DISPATCH  — 
Yanomami Genocide  — 

“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Talita Bedinelli , 
Boa Vista, Roraima , 
13 February 2023
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
Nature's Rights  — 
Fish nursery turned into cemetery by Belo Monte dam
Helena Palmquist , 
Belém, Pará, Amazon , 
12 February 2023
The discovery of millions of dead eggs in one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions has left indigenous communities distraught and raised fears among scientists of eco-system breakdown.
Voices of the Forest  — 
“Lula, we don’t want to cry because people die”
SUMAÚMA
12 December 2022
Women from the Rokoari community, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, appeal to the president-elect to halt the humanitarian catastrophe caused by illegal mining
Our Voice  — 

Gold and Beef: Ronaldo’s recipe for disaster
Eliane Brum , 
Jonathan Watts , 
12 December 2022

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

Voices of the Forest  — 

Raoni wants to
meet with Lula
SUMAÚMA
6 December 2022
Brazil's most iconic indigenous leader, the Kayapó learnt from the experience of Belo Monte that pressure must be put on white people's governments - no matter the political party - so that nature and the native peoples are respected
SPECIAL REPORT  — 

Exclusive: Bolsonaro government set to erase indigenous communities from 2022 Census
Talita Bedinelli
3 December 2022
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics lacks resources to survey three indigenous areas, which will impact government policies for a decade
FRONTLINE DISPATCH  — 

Barbe-coup in Bolsonaroland
Rodolfo Salm
8 November 2022

Frontline report from a churrasco protest inside the Bolsonarist hotbed of Altamira, where supporters want the army to overturn the election result

SUMAÚMA in the press  — 
SUMAÚMA wins support from Google, is finalist for an award, and features in the Brazilian and global press
Carolina Frederico
8 November 2022
The trilingual, Amazon-based journalism platform launches international crowdfunding campaign
ReXistence  — 

To cleanse ourselves of Bolsonaro, we must fight like a forest
Eliane Brum
7 November 2022

The defeat of Brazil’s fascist president represents a window of possibility. To turn it into a horizon of hope, we must act not against Bolsonarism, but for a radical relationship with life

Nature in Power  — 
Message to Lula 2: Listen to Brazil’s Quilombola and riverine peoples
SUMAÚMA
5 November 2022
What the Amazon’s traditional populations, agroecological workers and leaders of social movements want from the president-elect

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