In the doorway of her dilapidated house in the Vila da Barca favela, in the Amazonian city of Belém, a mother cools off from the sweltering heat in a small plastic pool with her daughter.
The climate crisis is impacting the city’s iconic working class neighborhoods, the urban heart of the Brazilian Amazon and the location of the UN's COP30 climate conference, which began on Monday.
"The weather has changed a lot; it's intensely hot from nine in the morning," says another resident, Rosineide Santos, 56, who arrived in thi
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