Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to ... but that rings hollow to locals and conservationists who are condemning the project. “Everything was ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will raise their standard of living ...

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

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make ... on constructing a highway known as "Avenida Liberdade" since 2012, but the project has repeatedly ...

As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane highway - Avenida Liberdade - through the protected Amazon rainforest has ...

New data provided by researchers from the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and environmental ...

A Brazilian biologist is now working to make the rainforest safer for the many primate species that call it home, CNN ...

The project, expected to soon break ground, has an estimated cost of $2.5 billion. It is planned near the mouth of the Madeira River, which flows into the Amazon River. The build-out will include ...

Potassium Mining Project in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest Divides Indigenous Tribe LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s ...