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
Em novo parecer, órgão volta a recomendar que petroleira não explore a Foz do Amazonas e impõe dilema a seu presidente, Rodrigo Agostinho, que deve dar a palavra final. Lula quer o petróleo
Equipe tem que se manifestar sobre documentos enviados pela Petrobras em novembro antes de qualquer decisão sobre perfuração de poço no litoral do Amapá
For eight years, Norte Energia, the hydroelectric plant's concessionaire, has refused to make good for damages and disruption to residents' way of life in the Rio Iriri, Riozinho do Anfrísio, and Rio Xingu Extractive Reserves
Deputies and senators in the state of Amapá have organized a public hearing to try to discredit the environment ministry’s decision to block exploration in the Mouth of the Amazon River. They allowed no counter-argument or scientific debate and left it too late for indigenous communities to build a consensus. Instead they hammered home a political message and campaigned for pro-drilling Randolfe Rodrigues to replace Marina Silva as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.
Ibama chief Rodrigo Agostinho says Petrobras oil project is “infeasible” from an environmental standpoint, in line with technical report first covered exclusively by SUMAÚMA. The decision is a boost to Environment Minister Marina Silva
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA Rodrigo Agostinho, the new president of Brazil’s environmental protection agency Ibama, says the "life of the river" will be paramount in deciding whether to extend the operation of the destructive dam on the Xingu. On the Petrobras application to explore for oil at the mouth of the Amazon river, he insists “every possible and imaginable impact” must first be examined.