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

The Amazon is also vital to the global and regional water cycles, as it releases 20 billion tons of water in the atmosphere per day. Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the ...

The president says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it.

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.

Machines are currently working to pave over the thick forest mud to build the new road, which runs straight through the protected Amazon forest. The massive highway is hoped to alleviate traffic ...