Tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon Rainforest are being cut down so a new highway can be built in preparation for the November COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The BBC reports that ...

Eight miles of rainforest was cut down for the road.Large swathes of the Amazon rainforest has been chopped down ...

BBC's Ione Wells reports from Brazil where rainforest, animals and local people are being affected by the new road.

As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane highway - Avenida Liberdade - through the protected Amazon rainforest has ...

The architect of the Paris Agreement says Brazil will not be influenced by fossil fuel companies like previous petrostate COP ...

City and state officials are also encouraging residents to travel and rent out their homes. That has unleashed a gold rush of ...

When President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in early 2023, environmentalists breathed a sigh of relief. After four ...

Despite COP30 being held in the Amazon, Brazil has stayed silent on the food systems crisis, the top driver of its ...

It is not the first time the Commonwealth and the Vatican have worked together. Last May, Massachusetts leaders traveled to ...

Brazil has recently been criticised for bulldozing parts of the rainforest as part of road-building plans to ensure that the ...

One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a combination ... in the Amazon as land-use change and human-induced climate change progress, affecting tree mortality, fire incidence ...