Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for the first time on Wednesday asked protesters blocking roads nationwide to lift blockades as demonstrations are restricting people’s right to come and go and ...

Plans to pave Brazil's highway BR-319 through the Amazon rainforest have raised alarm from environmental groups. A Brazilian road project cuts through the Amazon, paving the way to vast deforestation ...

The BR-364 federal highway triggered one of the largest deforestation drives in the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Built in the early 1960s through the rainforest, it links Cuiabá, capital of Mato ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced a nearly $66 billion investment package on Wednesday to beef up the nation’s ailing road and rail systems, part of efforts to solve ...

BR-319 HIGHWAY, Brazil — This road trip starts on water. That's because the road known as BR-319 begins on the opposite bank of the Amazon River from the Brazilian city of Manaus, and there's no ...