BELEM, Brazil — For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first U.N. climate conference to be held in the ...

Brazil building an 8-mile road through rainforest ahead of COP30. Critics say it threatens biodiversity and encourages deforestation. Officials claim the road predates the climate summit and is ...

Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of ...

BELEM, Brazil — In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it will ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. However, the natural life that once inspired Barata’s poetry is now under threat. The story takes us to Combu Island, a 10-minute boat ride from ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Leaders of the world’s three biggest polluters — China, the United States and India — are absent from the U.N.