As COP30 opens, urban Amazon residents swelter

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 water.  Here in the riverside community of Vila da Barca, tightly packed houses on stilts bake in...

Rubber tappers forge sustainable future in Amazon

As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to tap his rubber trees.  Drop by drop, he collects the milky white sap, known as latex, that sustains him. The recent revival of the rubber tapper trade...