‘That night, everything I am was left behind’
Cartoonist Talita Grass’s home was subsumed by the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul and now she is trying to recover her things from the mud’s destruction
The reinvented life of the man who confessed to killing Chico Mendes
In Medicilândia, Darci Alves Pereira adopted a new name, got rich, started an Evangelical church, and tried to enter politics through Jair Bolsonaro’s party
The seven-year-old girl who fears being burned alive by ‘bad men’
Violence persists at the Dorothy Stang Resettlement, in Anapu, in the Brazilian Amazon, 19 years after the missionary's murder. Landgrabbers are trying to drive residents away by attacking the school, which has been burned down twice
Vale se apossa de 24 mil hectares de terras públicas em Carajás
Com omissão do Incra, multinacional brasileira, que há alguns anos comprou terras da União de forma irregular, pressiona agricultores e atua para desmobilizar movimentos sociais no sudeste do Pará. Esta reportagem é uma parceria entre King’s College de Londres e SUMAÚMA
Ayumã Xipai, midwife to a people
She overcame slavery in the rubber era, the invasion of large landowners with their armed gunmen, and the neglect of the State and proved her people were not extinct and the Amazon region was the home of her ancestors
After floods and destruction, Brasiléia plans to move
An Amazonian border city already impacted substantially by drug trafficking fears it will not withstand the increasingly frequent climate disasters
‘People are more outraged by Notre-Dame burning than by an Amazon river being poisoned’
Peruvian author Joseph Zárate, an Indigenous writer with an international reputation, discovered his own forest through the memories of his grandmother
The Paraguay River versus the end of the world
Threatened by agribusiness and waterway projects, the River spanning three countries and three biomes was considered, by law, a legal person with rights – but only for a month
Mineradoras da Noruega e da França são responsáveis por metade dos desastres ambientais de Barcarena
Município da Amazônia teve quase 30 acidentes em duas décadas, 16 deles ligados à norueguesa Norsk Hydro e à francesa Imerys – e moradores se assustam com a contaminação por metais pesados e o aumento de 636% nos casos de câncer entre 2000 e 2022
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Ascending the Falls: Life on the Xingu River
Guardians of the Amazon Forest in the Middle Xingu describe how the river’s rapids and waterfalls are more-than-human beings that interweave with their lives
