Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past ...

Dubbed the Avenida Liberdade highway, the new stretch of highway cuts across tens of thousands of acres of rainforest located ...

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of ...

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The climate conference doesn't begin until November but controversy is already swirling, according to the BBC.

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The BBC’s article has pictures of the clear-cut forest floor where logs have ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.

For roughly about 65 million years, the forests of the Amazonian were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is ...

The Brazilian government has cleared protected Amazon rainforest to build a highway for the COP30 climate summit.

Brazilian officials said the highway is sustainable with wildlife crossings for animals to use and solar lighting.