This year’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil had many unique aspects that could have been part of an historic outcome. COP30, as it’s called, was hosted in Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...

Brazil's Minister of Environment Marina Silva (L) and Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara participate in the opening of the Pre-COP30 meeting, as part of the preparations for the ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global ...

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the ...

BELEM, Brazil — The arrival of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough ...

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 ...

This year’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil had many unique aspects that could have been part of an historic outcome. COP30, as it’s called, was hosted in Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...