Interview

The lament of a ‘miscarrying’ Brazil nut tree

COP30: price gouging on room rates may be treated as a crime, says official

In an interview with SUMAÚMA, COP secretary Valter Correia da Silva advises countries to send smaller delegations to Belém due to capacity limits, and insists there will be zero deforestation for the event

Exclusive: COP30 president wants civil society pressure on governments

In an interview with SUMAÚMA, ambassador André Corrêa do Lago says forest restoration should be a priority but calls oil drilling off the Amazon coast a question of national sovereignty

A plea to Belo Monte dam: Let the fish spawn

Raimundo da Cruz e Silva, a Ribeirinho poet and fisher in the Volta Grande region of the Xingu River, fears the hydroelectric plant will once again kill aquatic life for profit

Dantes: The literary hothouse where ideas grow wild

A conversation with publisher Anna Dantes, whose ‘Selvagem’ collaboration with Indigenous thinker and writer Ailton Krenak draws on ancestral memory and Indigenous and scientific knowledge

The all-consuming flame

In the wake of the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles, author John Vaillant explains what he learned by writing a book on our species’ burning addiction and how it is linked to the oil industry and evangelical religion

‘It was a survival instinct that sent me up to the roof’

The Indigenous attorney bringing the village to the court

Samara Pataxó studied law so she could help her relatives. Years later, Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin asked her to coordinate the Supreme Electoral Court's diversity and inclusion area. She encourages Indigenous people, Black people and women to ‘open roads’ by occupying spaces of power

‘The flood proved that Rio Grande do Sul is Indigenous Territory’

‘I’ve been here some four months now, but it seems longer’