WWF is racing against the clock to protect what remains of this once great forest. The Atlantic Forest stretches from northeast Brazil, south along the Brazilian Atlantic coastline and inland into ...

Such challenges, and the opportunities to address them, are exemplified in Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes. These two tropical forests are of global significance: they sequester and store ...

Named after a river in the state of Goiás, Corumbá the puma was named after a river in the central Brazilian state of Goiás. Between 2022 and 2023, as much of the world was locked down by the COVID-19 ...

By Shanna Hanbury Plans to build a railway that would slice South America from east to west, crossing part of the Amazon ...

Some twenty-one people have been killed as a consequence of the torrential rain and winds caused by a cyclone in southern Brazil, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul neighboring Uruguay and Argentina.

But the destruction of the Atlantic Forest has exacerbated the local effects of climate change — and with it, heightened the risks of wildfires. In Brazil, the Jequitinhonha Valley, where the ...

Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation venture backed by several corporate heavyweights, on Friday unveiled its first project, aiming to restore 1,200 hectares (2,965 acres) of Brazil's coastal Atlantic ...

The Pampas grasslands, spanning southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina, are home to a wildcat so rare that ...

as high pressure over the southern Atlantic pulled moist air from the east of the continent. Southern Brazil and the northern Andes stood out as irradiance hotspots during March, posting anomalies ...