The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published today in New Phytologist shows that one of ...

The Cerrado is a vast tropical savannah in central Brazil recognised as one of the world’s most biodiverse biomes and a crucial water source for multiple river basins. Its vegetation comprises grasses ...

The Cerrado savanna occupies about 26% of Brazil and is home to more than 12,000 plant species and diverse animal life. It’s also speckled with groundwater-fed wetlands that serve as the headwaters ...

TOCANTINIA, Brazil (AP) — Fire began crackling like approaching rain on a recent morning in the Xerente Indigenous Territory in Tocantins in northern Brazil. But the Indigenous residents weren’t ...

An EU law banning deforestation-derived products comes into effect at the end of 2024, but for Brazilian Indigenous people it contains an unbearable loophole: the Cerrado, Brazil's vast wooded savanna ...

In the state of Mato Grosso, some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based NGO Global ...

Hectare for hectare, wetlands in the Brazilian Cerrado holds six times more carbon than the lowland Amazon, according to the first study to estimate carbon stocks in the biome. Researchers also found ...

The Brazilian government last week announced a new plan to protect the Cerrado, a massive expanse of biologically diverse savanna that is under huge pressure from encroaching development. Brasilia, ...