(Amazon Forest Felled to Build Road for Climate Summit, BBC News, March 11, 2025) Oh really, no kidding! And the Brazilian government, cranking up newspeak to a higher pitch yet, claims ...

Somebody get Greta on the horn! 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 ...

Mongabay went to Pará state’s southwest and found examples of people struggling to keep sustainable initiatives in a region dominated by soy, cattle, gold and logging.

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 ...

the Brazilian Forest Service wants to speed up the creation of timber forest concessions in the Amazon region. The first one in the state of Amazonas was signed in 2023. Image courtesy of Imaflora.

The hypocrisy of our climate overlords just gets deeper and deeper: They just bulldozed an Amazon rainforest highway to look ...

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 ...

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights. (AP Video by Fernando Crispim. Produced by Te ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is changing rapidly, as the region is exposed to unprecedented stress from global warming, ...

Trees in the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to construct a new road for an upcoming United Nations climate change conference. The project aims to ease traffic congestion as Brazil prepares to ...

Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil, Aug. 20, 2024. Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images Paving these roadways ...