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

This year's controversial COP 30 climate change summit hasn't even started, but it's already causing environmental damage.

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of ...

A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of ...

The Amazon rainforest is being felled so that a new highway can be built ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Dubbed the Avenida Liberdade highway, the new stretch of highway cuts across tens of thousands of acres of rainforest located ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

Brazilian officials say the highway is one of 30 major construction projects to prepare for the COP30. Critics say it’s ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... home to about three million species of plants and animals and 1.6 million indigenous people. The forest is also ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over ... that there was a "loss" from deforestation since animals "will no longer be able to cross to the other side ...