The political threat to the world’s biggest tropical rainforest has intensified after the defeat of the two governors in the ...

To understand how the Brazilian elections will impact life in general, we must first understand that Brazil is the outskirts of the Amazon. Brazil is not important because of its soybean monoculture, ...

It’s about your life and that of the Amazon, which may very well cease to exist as a healthy, globally important ecosystem if the far right - which has already strengthened its grip on Congress - also ...

Global leaders need schooling from indigenous communities on the importance of a harmonious relationship with nature, the United Nations Secretary-General has told SUMAÚMA in a world exclusive ahead ...

O mapa interativo de SUMAÚMA com os resultados eleitorais em cada uma das cidades da Amazônia indica que o presidente e candidato à reeleição Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, do PT, venceu em 429 das 772 ...

The youth climate movement gained strength in 2018, driven by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who began skipping school every Friday to protest outside the Swedish Parliament. Her actions demanded ...

In a defeat for the entire planet, in the early morning hours of July, 17, on Forest Protection Day, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies passed what has become known as the Devastation Bill, imploding ...

Alessandra Korap Munduruku was born and raised on the banks of the Tapajós River, in a village near Itaituba in the southwest of the Brazilian state of Pará. As an Indigenous child, and the eldest of ...

“You stole it,” says Indiana Jones. “Then you stole it,” replies the Nazi, Jürgen Voller. “And then I stole it. It’s called capitalism,” says Helena Shaw, the archaeologist’s goddaughter, while ...

Less than a week after the climate conference in Belém, Brazil’s National Congress struck down 56 of Lula’s line-item vetoes in the Devastation Bill – destroying the country’s environmental licensing ...

“If you don’t want to sell the land, no problem, your widow will sell it to me for less.” Many ribeirinhos – traditional forest community dwellers – and many migrant small-hold farmers who settled on ...

“The street back there is full of Venezuelans,” a woman says when she sees me looking for the house where Warao Indigenous woman Rossana Medrano lives, in the Primeiro de Março neighborhood on the ...