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

BELEM, Brazil - Environmental activists from around the globe have eagerly awaited Brazil's turn hosting the United Nations ...

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

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 ...

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

Tens of thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Amazon are now being cleared for the COP30 climate conference of all ...

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

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

As world leaders prepare to gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, the Brazilian government is bulldozing tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest to make way for a ...

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 ...