Reimagining Tuire’s defiant defence of life
SUMAÚMA asked Amazonian and Indigenous artists to recreate the image of the Kayapó woman who challenged the white men and became a symbol of the forest peoples' resistance to the Belo Monte Dam
How military ideology shaped today’s Amazon
The authors of the Army's doctrine on the region see Indigenous people as ‘foreigners’ while calling for alliances with illegal miners and looking to China's dictatorship for solutions
Lula is right: we need a global tax on the super rich
Amid growing signs of climate breakdown and declining trust in carbon credits, the world’s best hope is to soak the billionaires and super-polluters who got us into this mess
‘You see people’s lives in the debris’
Environmentalist Leonardo da Costa visits Rio Grande do Sul’s largest temporary landfill, where thousands of belongings lost to flooding were sent
‘Seeing our house, our work, go underwater. Here, it was a life saver‘
Liziane Dutra’s family lost everything to flooding in Rio Grande do Sul and went to live in a building occupied by unhoused people. Now, they may be evicted
A nova seca que assombra a Amazônia, Abelhas ameaçadas e outras histórias
Uma seleção de notícias sobre a Amazônia para ser lida em dois minutos
Juarez Transamazônico, the ‘baby of the future,’ looks for his past
The first Brazilian to be born along the dictatorship's symbolic highway through the Amazon has resurfaced to become the poster-child of an unsustainable Brazil
A suspeita ‘adoção’ de um bebê Yanomami e outras histórias
Uma seleção de notícias sobre a Amazônia para ser lida em dois minutos
‘When the water rose, we didn’t think it would be that serious. Seeing the Market closed is truly sad’
Caroline Kader’s family has worked in Porto Alegre’s Mercado Público for four generations and is, for the second time, experiencing loss from a major flood
