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

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

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

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