The Cerrado, Brazil's savanna biome, is being destroyed at a fast pace, and inadequate management of remnants is transforming large areas of the biome into cerradão, a biodiversity-poor forest ...

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

Brazilian mining giant Vale has sold a 70% stake in a renewable power portfolio in the country, generating around US$1 ...

Leaders Summit, I had the honor of moderating a fireside chat with Shalini Unnikrishnan, Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG, on one of the most promising—yet vastly ...

Perhaps no country has been affected by Harvard’s land grabs more than Brazil, home to nearly half of the University’s ...

Researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), at its Tupã campus in Brazil, have developed and tested a new geospatial ...

Conservationists, including WWF, NWF and TNC welcome move as Cerrado is cleared faster than Amazon. Covering more than a quarter of Brazil’s land area, the Cerrado is home to thousands of species of ...

A new species of parrot snake lay undetected for nearly nine years in a scientific collection in Brazil. It closely resembled related species with bright green and yellow tones. But one detail set ...

Brazil lost 400 thousand hectares of water surface in 2024. The country’s territory covered by water bodies and reservoirs ...