Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

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 ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over ... Change Conference with the Conference of the Parties (COP30), has already begun clearing the forests in ...

Before the talks, called COP30, the state government of Para ... boasted that this will be the first such conference in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon is key to regulating the climate, because ...

COP30 Spotlight: counting the cost of Amazon hydropower to local indigenous communities.

The new rules, considered unconstitutional by experts, would benefit around 80% of the ventures with a self-licensing process ...

A decades-long project set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall.

Speaking on her porch by the Negro River, Borges said her company, Yara Amazonas, started a partnership with loggers to extract oils and seeds from the forest, instead of cutting trees down. "The ...

Belém, a city on Brazil’s northeast coast considered the gateway to the Amazon, will be the stage for COP30 in November, and some have raised concerns about its ability to accommodate an influx ...

Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva takes part in the 11th Meeting of Environment Ministers ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway ...