Brazil is facing accusations of hypocrisy after cutting down large sections of the Amazon rainforest to construct a road for the upcoming COP30 climate summit, according to The Telegraph.

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 ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

A new highway being built through the Amazon rainforest to facilitate travel for delegates attending the UN climate summit, COP30, in Belém, Brazil, has drawn fierce criticism, reported The ...

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Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil, Aug. 20, 2024. Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images Paving these roadways ...

SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest ...

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to ease travel for attendees. The highway ...

Brazil cut down portions of the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway and make it just a little easier for those 50,000 people to arrive. As reported by the BBC, the state government of ...

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Brazil is building a new highway through the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 climate summit. BBC Except it’s 100% real, with copious photos showing the devastated forest. The news comes on the ...

And that’s significant: Historically, forests remove more than 30 percent of all the carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere; as late as the 1990s, the Amazon rainforest was still removing ...