While Indigenous and riverine communities set up volunteer fire brigades to tackle the looming threat, SUMAÚMA talks to the lead author of a new book series that provides advice on preventing and ...

Conversamos com duas lideranças ameaçadas de morte no Pará: o ambientalista e líder camponês Erasmo Theofilo, de Anapu, e a ...

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

Years of government neglect of the Yanomami territory have transformed the largest indigenous land in Brazil into a minefield that has started to explode. The price of gold and the absence of law ...

On the day the world turned to watch the opening of the 2026 World Cup, around 500 people, dressed mostly in green and yellow, were huddled together in the arrivals area of the airport in Altamira, ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

The banging of a hammer announces the building of a small wooden structure just over 10 feet square. It is being put together by Quilombolas—descendants of rebel slaves—in the community of São Rosário ...

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 ...

A gesture that left a mark on history. A gesture that expressed ideas and passion with the movement of hands, arms, head, and body. A gesture associated with a tireless struggle to defend the rights ...

The blackened gray of burned tree trunks fills kilometers of Pantanal landscape. The fire consumed what was left of the acuri palm leaves, turning the macaws’ favorite fruit to charcoal. Ever since ...