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 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 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 ...

The fast pace at which natural vegetation is being destroyed in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna-like biome, to make way for pasture and cropland is seriously affecting ecosystem services. More effective ...

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 ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. April 15 - As Brazil takes on the presidency of the G20 and calls for the massive channelling of resources to address ...

For decades, researchers have debated the subsistence strategies of precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado (tropical ...

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, ...

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 ...

Research shows alarming lack of transparency in official data. São Paulo, 17 May, 2021 – 94% of deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado (specifically in the region known as MATOPIBA, which ...

The fast pace at which natural vegetation is being destroyed in the Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna-like biome, to make way for pasture and cropland is seriously affecting ecosystem services. More effective ...