Once a climate champion, Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is pushing for more oil drilling, even as the country ...

Large swathes of the Amazon rainforest has been chopped down to build a road for the COP30 climate summit. The summit is set to take place in the Brazilian city of Belém in November. The highway is ...

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

The Amazon rainforest is often described as 'the lungs of the earth' although, usefully, it does the exact opposite: ...

A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have been cleared. While officials call it sustainable, conservationists ...

The new highway smack-dab down ... the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it,” Ibid. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest ...

An eight-mile stretch of Amazon rainforest is being cleared to make space for a ... paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area. Locals are now concerned ...

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

The next instalment in a series of United Nations climate change conferences will be COP30, taking place in Bélem, Brazil, in ...

Brazilian officials say the highway is one of 30 major construction projects to prepare for the COP30. Critics say it’s ...

Brazil’s Belém is set to play host to around 50,000 people during the COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit, in November. Ironically, it turns out that the government is cutting down thousands of acre ...