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

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the ...

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

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

A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have ...

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 ...

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

A new road is being built by cutting down thousands of protected Amazon rainforest acres for the COP30 climate summit in ...

Brazilian officials said the highway is sustainable with wildlife crossings for animals to use and solar lighting.

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

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...