Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a ...

Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras and the country's development bank BNDES have partnered up to create a program to ...

Despite COP30 being held in the Amazon, Brazil has stayed silent on the food systems crisis, the top driver of its ...

Belem, a bustling metropolitan area of 2.5 million people near the mouth of the Amazon River, is preparing to host COP30 in ...

Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and, with experts predicting the drought could last until early 2024, the problems ...

Brazil is home to 12% of Earth’s freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a ...

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