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The COP30 climate summit will draw representatives from 198 countries to Belém, a city of 1.3 million in the Amazon rainforest.
Dozens of indigenous nations from different countries are calling for an oil drilling ban in the world's largest rainforest ...
The upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil faces criticism for its potential environmental costs, including deforestation ...
With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s ...
Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...
At the Leaders Meeting on Climate and the Just Transition held recently, major countries from the Global North and the Global ...
Opinion
A highway to hypocrisy
Media reporting around preparations of COP30 climate summit is worrying. COP30 is the 30th UN-led Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a ...
By holding COP30 in the Brazilian Amazon, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva aims to highlight the existential threat to the world's biggest rainforest. On a visit to the Amazon last week he ...
The cattle farmers seek out new pastures, pushing the agricultural frontier ever deeper into the rainforest. “The Amazon offers far ... As Brazil plans to host COP30 later this year, a surge ...
In Brazil alone, fires wiped out nearly 18 million hectares of Amazon rainforest, according to the MapBiomas monitoring platform. "For me it's important that Indigenous chiefs are invited to COP30 ...
A year after his presidential ambitions collapsed, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey can no longer lay claim to the future ...