Brazil to revive highway project through Amazon amid concerns

🇧🇷 Deutsche Welle (BR) —

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Brazil plans to invest $75 million to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest, raising environmental concerns about protecting this vital climate ecosystem. The project highlights tensions between infrastructure development and conservation efforts.

Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest. Environmentalists argue for strong protections to conserve the ecosystem so crucial to curbing climate change.

World Politics Energy Brazil Amazon rainforest highway project environment climate change infrastructure

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