BBC's Ione Wells reports from Brazil where rainforest, animals and local people are being affected by the new road.

City and state officials are also encouraging residents to travel and rent out their homes. That has unleashed a gold rush of ...

The architect of the Paris Agreement says Brazil will not be influenced by fossil fuel companies like previous petrostate COP ...

As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane highway - Avenida Liberdade - through the protected Amazon rainforest has ...

Eight miles of rainforest was cut down for the road.Large swathes of the Amazon rainforest has been chopped down ...

Brazil has recently been criticised for bulldozing parts of the rainforest as part of road-building plans to ensure that the ...

Tens of thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Amazon are now being cleared for the COP30 climate conference of all ...

Once a climate champion, Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is pushing for more oil drilling, even as the country ...

It is not the first time the Commonwealth and the Vatican have worked together. Last May, Massachusetts leaders traveled to ...

One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a combination ... in the Amazon as land-use change and human-induced climate change progress, affecting tree mortality, fire incidence ...