It pales in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest ... or collective villages, exist within the region, with residents living off the land. In the 1950s, Brazil found a use for it.

This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil ... ever deeper into the rainforest. “The Amazon offers far more land than ...

It is planned near the mouth of the Madeira River, which flows into the Amazon River ... from 34 out of 36 nearby villages voted. However, Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office, which is tasked ...

It is planned near ... Amazon Rivers to reach Mato Grosso State, Brazil’s largest soybean producer. Divisions over the project have become so deep that the tribal members are no longer meeting ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal ... on Combu Island on the banks of the Guama River, near the city of Belem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 6, 2023.

Brazil cut down portions of the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway ... Local resident Claudio Verequete lives near the highway and previously made a living harvesting açaí berries.