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 ...

Researchers suspect the species may be endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado, a shrinking tropical savanna that, despite its destruction, remains one of the most biodiverse biomes on Earth. Unlike Brazil ...

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 ...

Although commonly seen running across the open grasslands of the Brazilian Cerrado, surprisingly little is known about the species. Researchers Fernanda Cavalcanti and Frederico Lemos have spent ...

The artist and his partner, scholar Ceiça Ferreira, founded Sertão Negro in 2021 and have been nurturing and growing it ever ...

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

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 ...

With this tool, it was possible to precisely delineate areas of Amazon rainforest, Cerrado vegetation (the Brazilian savannah-like biome), pastures and agricultural crops in a double-cropping system, ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, created by the convergence of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing down from the eastern Andes and the high plateaus of the Cerrado, the ...