In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
In the Xipaya Indigenous Territory, the Iriri River is suffering the effects of climate change, as its waters change color and its fish die. We Indigenous people are living in a time of uncertainty
While the forests of the outside world face a growing risk of desertification, our symbolic forests, the habitat of the mental creatures who populate the individual and collective unconscious, are turning to deserts before our eyes
A pre-COP30 meeting in Bonn laid bare a diplomatic battle on finance that could upend negotiations and prevent advances against oil and in favor of the forests
With COP30 on the horizon, the company that devastated the Xingu river is doubling down on its strategy of releasing ‘positive news’ about the plant, using the same press agents as the Mines and Energy Ministry
Poorer nations and civil society organizations tell the Brazilian government that lodging costs are not conducive to social participation in the meeting on the climate emergency
It has spurred social and environmental activists and Indigenous leaders to protest in Rio de Janeiro and in Bonn, at a decisive conference to prepare for the meeting in Belém
With less than five months until Brazil hosts COP30, the Lula administration steps up its attack on Nature by soliciting exploration bids across the country. Only legal challenges stand in its way
The president has put oil before the forest, neglected his environment minister Marina Silva, and put up only a half-hearted opposition to a law that threatens Brazil’s biomes and people. Whose side is he on?
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
Organizações sociais de todo o país se manifestam contra a lei que implode o licenciamento ambiental, e movimentos convocam atos nas ruas de várias cidades
SUMAÚMA goes behind the scenes of the concerted effort to destroy environmental licensing, which was made possible by inaction from ministers and governing congressional members
Under pressure from the Lula administration and Congress, the head of the environmental agency has overruled 29 technical experts and approved the penultimate requirement for Petrobras to drill offshore from the Amazon