A week later, the Brazilian Congress approved a bill deeming the road project essential and allocating money to it from the Amazon Fund, intended to protect the rainforest. Amazon Fund donors must ...

An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now only a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation in the region, according to satellite ...

An eight-mile stretch of protected Amazon rainforest has been felled to ... government prepare for the conference in November. The road will be used to ease traffic in and out of the city of ...