Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

By Daniel CamargosEmmanuelle PicaudSimone Fant Alto Jequitinhonha, Brazil — No photographs remain of João Gomes de Azevedo’s village before eucalyptus plantations radically transformed it. Instead, ...

By John Revill BERN (Reuters) -Environmentalists protested at the Swiss National Bank's annual shareholder meeting on Friday, ...

Often in the shadow of the Amazon, the Cerrado is a vast savanna that once covered 2 million square kilometers (an area larger than Great Britain, France, and Germany combined). It extends east ...

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 ...

Left panel: Ted Schultz (left) and Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo (right) excavate a primitive, lower fungus-farming ant nest in the seasonally dry Brazilian Cerrado (savanna) near Brasilia in 2009.

This documentary captures the environmental and societal impact of Brazils Cerrado savanna suffering from severe deforestation and the attempts to defend this biome ...

The Cerrado, the most biodiverse savanna on Earth, has been disappearing at an accelerating rate as Brazil’s massive agribusiness industry has increasingly turned to the region in recent decades.

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 ...

urging the central bank to divest from companies they say contribute to environmental devastation in regions like the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna. The protest in Bern targeted the SNB's ...