In the meantime, the Congo Basin’s lack of reliable data on long-term climate change meant that the rainforest continued to be excluded or misrepresented in global reports and analysis.

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 ...

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 climate summit in Brazil.

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, will bring 50,000 people to the city. Brazil cut down portions of the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway and make it just a ...

As the northern Brazil city of Belem prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in November, a new BBC report has revealed that a stretch of the Amazon rainforest is being cleared to build a road ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 ... by bulldozing tens of thousands of acres of “protected rainforest” to build a 4-lane highway to “help reduce traffic ...

Tens of thousands of acres have been chopped down in the Amazon (Picture: Getty) The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate ... cover of the rainforest or ...

In preparation for an international climate summit this fall, Brazilian state officials are clearing tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest to complete a new four-lane highway ...

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 ...