The city that persecutes trees
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
Timber companies use new ruse to deforest the Amazon
Associations are suspected of coopting traditional communities to continue destroying the forest by crafting supposedly legal operations wrapped in the name of 'management plans'
‘Drilling for oil in the Amazon is a contradiction in terms,’ says Petro at COP28
At a conference that looks like it is set in a theme park, Lula undermines the government’s environmental credibility by announcing that Brazil will join OPEC+. Colombian president says only a new, progressive generation can move Latin America away from fossil fuels
Amazonian Whodunnit
Humanity is to blame for the slow death of the rainforest, but we are not equally responsible. The fingerprints of carbon inequality are all over this crime scene
COP28 is a bubble of white men that activists and Indigenous and Black people are trying to break through
Fossil fuels are the challenge at this year’s climate conference, but the slow pace of negotiations has socioenvironmental and antiracist movements frustrated, as deaths due to the impacts of global heating mount across the planet
Taylor Swift and oil exploration
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
Illegal mining returns to Yanomami land and other stories
A two-minute round-up of the latest Amazon news
Belo Monte does to the Volta Grande region of the Xingu River what drought does to the Amazon
Since 2015, the sequestering of the river's water by the hydroelectric plant has interrupted lifecycles and killed thousands of fish, threatening food security for Indigenous and Ribeirinho peoples, with Brazil's environmental regulator failing to make a decision to stop the destruction
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Every shade of green, in a country in darkness
In Puerto Rico, the seawater and the insects glow in the dark but the people are fleeing. Natural resources can bring freedom and independence, colonization and submission. Hurricanes and earthquakes are cruel reminders of our hardships. What do we do when the lights go out?
For a
more-than-human
world
SUMAÚMA and New York University School of Law join forces to center the rights and perspectives of animal-people, plant-people, and fungi-people
