Tree-Person
The Ipe tree who provided shelter and love in the Amazon – then became a table in New York. Dead at 53, H.s. left behind countless children and thousands of friends who were woven into her warm and welcoming life
How extreme drought and official indifference swallowed a village in Amazonas
Silent erosion and then a sudden crash turned the village of Arumã into a giant crater. Two residents are dead, three missing and several homes have been sucked down into the mud, victims of the climate crisis, El Niño and negligence by the authorities
The Amazon decolonizes its past
LiDAR surveillance by plane and the knowledge of traditional populations is helping Amazon archeologists to reconstruct the history of the human occupation of the rainforest, planted in part by original peoples but deemed uninhabited by governments in order to justify invasions and clearance
The doctors punished for an indigenous health revolution
Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves created a healthcare model that saved the Yanomami in the 1990s and early 2000s. But because they denounced illegal miners, their reputations have been destroyed and they are being asked to pay millions of reais to the government
