Amazon Rainforest Slashed for Highway Ahead of Climate Summit, Sparking Outrage
Dubbed the Avenida Liberdade highway, the new stretch of highway cuts across tens of thousands of acres of rainforest located on the outskirts of Belem, where over 50,000 people, including world leaders, are anticipated to gather in November for the COP30 Climate Summit, according to a report from BBC News.
COP30—the 30th edition of the Conference of the Parties, an annual meeting organized by the United Nations (UN) to define and ...
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Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost timeIn the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and ...
Beneath Brazil's Amazon rainforest, one of the planet's largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ...
As a physician who has cared for many patients with this deadly disease in Africa, I marveled at how this one tree has saved ...
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Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation: the biggest corruption scandal of the last decadeThe largest and most infamous corruption scandal of the last decade began with a criminal investigation into the operations ...
Ireland announced on Wednesday a donation of 15 million euros ($16.3 million) to Brazil's Amazon Fund, the Brazilian ...
As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane ...
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Only 5% of deforesters in Brazil’s Amazon fully paid fines, report findsBy Shanna Hanbury If you are caught cutting down the Amazon Rainforest illegally, chances are you will get off without being ...
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