This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past ...

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It covers some 5.5 million square kilometres, and spans nine countries. It is home to billions of trees, millions of animal species and more than ...

Brazil’s Belém is set to play host to around 50,000 people during the COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit, in November.

As Brazil clears the Amazon for a highway to host COP30, questions arise over whether such a move undermines the summit’s ...

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 ...

Somebody get Greta on the horn! Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 ...

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.