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

This year's controversial COP 30 climate change summit hasn't even started, but it's already causing environmental damage.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

The Amazon plays a vital role ... more than 13km (8 miles) through the rainforest into Belém. Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared ... and the whine of hydraulic excavators gutting the forest floor. More than 50,000 people are expected for the 30th ...

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 ...

Aa for the Amazon rainforest: According to researchers, the only way to avoid biome-wide collapse is to limit deforestation to 10% of the forest’s total cover, restore at least 5% of the biome ...

Forest floor The forest floor is very dark and ... Image caption, The Tupi Guarani people live in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. There are many different Amazon groups in addition to the Tupi ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest ... an "immaculate" forest "teeming with ...