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 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 ...

investigated the primary factors influencing fire occurrence and its changing suitability in the MAP region (a transnational area shared by Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia). The researchers employed the ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Brazil’s federal police quickly arrived and, after a brief standoff, told the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to release the deportees, though they had not yet reached their ...