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Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

Thursday 13 Mar 25 11:30am

Photo by Lucian on Unsplash

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

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