Nature
How Brazil Is Privatizing Public Forests and Opening the Door for More Deforestation
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also ...
Brazil Loses 16% of Its Water. Blame it on the Amazon Deforestation
Recurring drought, regular power outages and a devastated farming industry – these are the ...
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Will See More Changes in Five Decades than in the Last 21,000 Years
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly ...
Hunted for Centuries and Almost Extinct the Right Whale Is Making a Comeback in Brazil
Whale season started this month on the Brazilian coast and is expected to last ...
Earth Had 2.5 Billion Tyrannosaurus Rex and Other Revelations
During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus ...
Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil’s Cerrado to Our Planet
On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one ...
Over 3,000 Brazilian Animal and Plant Species Are Endangered or Vulnerable to Extinction
Brazil has 3,229 animal and plant species under threat — 19.8 percent of the ...
The Radical Changes Fires Are Causing the Amazon Flora and Fauna
The number of fires burning in standing Amazon rainforest spiked dramatically in recent weeks, ...
The Dramatic Struggle to Save the Threatened Blue Macaw from Brazil’s Pantanal Fires
In the 1960s, Luiz de Figueiredo Barretto bought the São Francisco do Perigara farm, ...
World’s Largest Tropical Wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, Being Converted into Ashes
Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath ...
