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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to make room for a four-lane highway ahead of the ...

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