(Mauro PIMENTEL/AFP/AFP) Outside their run-down home in the Amazon city of Belem, a mother and her little girl laugh as they cool off from the punishing heat in a large blue plastic tub filled with ...

Along with delegates from all over the world, I’ll be heading to the United Nations COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém. Like many others, I’m unsure what to expect. This year, ...

The COP30 climate talks start this week in Belém, a city at the mouth of the Amazon River that Brazil’s leaders chose as a venue to highlight connections between the climate crisis and the world’s ...

For the first time, the organisation attended the Climate Conference as a UNFCCC observer organisation – an important step ...

Activists with Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon stand next to a giant inflatable capybara, a mammal native to South America, during a protest Oct. 14, 2025, to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thousands of delegates at the climate conference stayed on diesel-powered cruise ships, embodying a key ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 countries at the United Nations climate talks did little to counteract papal criticism that "failing" political will is undermining global efforts to stave off dangerous levels of global ...

The planet’s biggest climate conference, COP30, has kicked off with representatives from more than 190 countries descending on the Brazilian city of Belém. They will spend two weeks deep in ...