Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon

Mongabay
Jun 16, 2025, 12:35 pm113 ptsTrending
Brazil is a country shaped by highways. The transportation model adopted by President Juscelino Kubitschek in the 1950s has been expanded by successive administrations across the political spectrum since then, involving substantial investments in road construction, maintenance and incentives for the automotive…

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