Amazon, Brazil and climate summit

Acres of Amazon rainforest trees cut down to build road for climate summit
The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of thousands of acres of the Amazonian jungle for a new highway. The city of Belém, more than 1500 miles away from Rio de Janeiro,
Satellite appears to show new highway cutting through Brazil's Amazon rainforest
Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.
Thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest cleared for climate summit highway in Brazil
A BBC report found on Wednesday that tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazonian rainforest are being cleared ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
Amazon Rainforest Cut Down for Climate Summit Highway
Brazilian officials said the highway is sustainable with wildlife crossings for animals to use and solar lighting.
‘Everything was destroyed’—Large patch of Amazon rainforest cleared out for highway ahead of UN's COP climate summit
A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have been cleared. While officials call it sustainable, conservationists highlight the hypocrisy of destroying nature to host a climate summit.
Blatant irony: Thousands of trees cut down in Amazon rainforest to welcome 'climate summit' attendees
Climate Summit in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is facing intense criticism for the way it is handling the event. Thousands of trees at the heart of the "Earth's lungs" have been chopped down to make way for attendees,
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In the jungle, students learn how to make tourism sustainable
Hospitality majors observed how tour guides in the Brazilian Amazon ensured the continued viability of their businesses by ...
A glimpse into a surreal abyss: how COVID ravaged a remote city in the Amazonian jungle – podcast
Researcher Japhy Wilson tells The Conversation Weekly podcast the surreal story of what happened in one Peruvian city in the ...
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‘Loss we cannot afford’: Brazil’s Lula under fire over Amazon oil drilling
Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president has raised environmentalists' concerns by greenlighting expanded oil exploration in the crucial rainforest ...
Peru’s Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...
Welcome to the jungle: Meet the New York Guardsmen who took on Brazil’s infamous jungle warfare school
Every year, the New York National Guard sends soldiers and airmen to Brazil's jungle warfare school, one of the world's toughest.
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'Jungle Cruise,' starring Dwayne Johnson, is now available to all Disney Plus members without an extra fee
In "Jungle Cruise," Johnson and Blunt embark on a perilous riverboat journey through the Amazon jungle to find the Tree of Life. The action-adventure movie is inspired by the ride of the same ...
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Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle
All across the Amazon Basin, in fact ... Awá hunters prepare to roast a porcupine while on a trek through the jungle. The Awá still derive a sense of identity from the forest, passing down ...