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 Ashéninka woman with the painted face radiated a calm, patient confidence as she stood on the sandy banks of the Amonia River and faced the loggers threatening her Amazonian community. The loggers ...

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 ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to pave a controversial road in the Amazon, despite warnings from environmentalists that it could lead to "historic deforestation." The BR-319 ...

Reporter John Otis along with photographer Bruno Kelly traveled the length of the road, known as BR-319, for this story. BR-319 HIGHWAY, Brazil — This road trip starts on water. That's because the ...