Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and ... “Everything was destroyed,” said Claudio Verequete, who lives about a quarter-mile from the roadway in ...

The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

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 ...

A huge four-lane highway is being built in the Amazon rainforest, destroying protected areas. The new road is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém, which will ...

"Everything was destroyed," said Claudio Verequete to ... critics argue that cutting down large sections of the Amazon rainforest contradicts the very principles the summit is meant to uphold.

The climate conference doesn't begin until November but controversy is already swirling, according to the BBC.

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest ... Even when that isn’t the case, the food given to cows may be grown on destroyed rainforest land. The environmental organisation Greenpeace ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built ... "Everything was destroyed," he says, gesturing at the clearing.