Environmentalists protested at the Swiss National Bank's annual shareholder meeting on Friday, urging the central bank to ...

No photographs remain of João Gomes de Azevedo’s village before eucalyptus plantations radically transformed it. Instead, ...

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

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazon, Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a result, many Brazilians have long run with the narrative that their water is ...

Here’s something that foreigners don’t realize: Brazil discriminates against itself. The Northeast—or Nordeste as we call it—is constantly belittled by people from the South and Southeast.

In one study, Wasser used scat-sniffing dogs to track five large animals—giant armadillos, giant anteaters, maned wolves, pumas and jaguars—through Brazil’s Cerrado, a once-vast savanna that ...

via Wikimedia Commons The Brazilian Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna, is home to some of the deadliest pit vipers, including the highly venomous jararaca and lancehead species. These snakes often lurk ...