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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon rainforest cut down to make way for four-lane motorway to COP 30 on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

Visitors can get up close with tropical birds including the green-winged macaws and scarlet ibis, and meet Parker the jaguar.

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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“It is a cruel irony that a highway destroying the Amazon rainforest is being built for a climate summit meant to protect it,” the Executive Coordinator of YouthNet Global, Sohanur Rahman, said in a ...

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 ...

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 ...