Brasilia - Cooperation between Brazil and Morocco in soil management, fertilizers and genetic variability, particularly for wheat, is promising for food security, Silvia Massruha, president of Embrapa ...

Satellite imagery helps to identify two hotspots of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s eastern coast.

Award-winning biologist Fernanda Abra’s Reconecta Project is building canopy bridges across highways in Brazil to protect ...

More than half of Brazil's rivers are at risk of reduced flow due to water seeping into underground aquifers. This is the ...

A radiant Rio de Janeiro, bathed in sunlight and carried by the ocean breeze. The beach is full of life—children run across ...

The stream arcs through the sky like a yellow rainbow. Claryana Araújo-Wang, a researcher at Botos do Cerrado Research Project in Brazil and CetAsia Research Group in Canada, and her colleagues ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), established by former President John F. Kennedy in 1961, has long been a cornerstone of American foreign aid policy. Its creation ...

The order Odonata encompasses conspicuous freshwater insects with hemimetabolous cycles that inhabit a wide variety of habitats. They have been recognized as excellent model organisms for ...

The hoary fox is the only canine endemic to both the Cerrado biome and Brazil; it’s now trying to survive among cattle pastures and soy plantations. Other threats resulting from human contact ...

The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now, drought has advanced a barrier of dead vegetation through this once-humid ...

Brazil briefly took down X last year over hate speech and fake news, and is heading for a broader showdown with social media networks as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva mounts a crusade ...

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the site location of the Florianópolis Brazil Temple, the first house of the Lord both in the metropolitan area of ...