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

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

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

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

Mongabay went to Pará state’s southwest and found examples of people struggling to keep sustainable initiatives in a region ...

Brazil’s Belém is set to play host to around 50,000 people during the COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit, in November.

Brazil is facing criticism for cutting down thousands of trees in the Amazon rainforest to build a road for the COP30 climate ...

Dubbed the Avenida Liberdade highway, the new stretch of highway cuts across tens of thousands of acres of rainforest located ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...

As Brazil clears the Amazon for a highway to host COP30, questions arise over whether such a move undermines the summit’s ...

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