Brazil is facing criticism for cutting down thousands of trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a road for the COP30 climate summit, despite the country's claims of commitment to environmental ...

The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon jungle for a new highway. The city of Belém, more ...

Machines are currently working to pave over the thick forest mud to build the new road, which runs straight through the protected Amazon forest ... wiped out – the trees he used to harvest ...

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

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The images, taken in by Copernicus ...

when the waters rise and flood the forests, these felines begin to live up in the trees. The finding, made in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s western Amazon ...

Living up in the trees demands considerable effort ... “This alters the dynamics of the ecosystem,” Alvarenga says. “The Amazon Rainforest is sensitive to changes. Prolonged droughts ...

BBC / Paulo Koba Claudio Verequete says the trees he harvested açaí from ... an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal ...

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

In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and ...