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 includes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's regular safari tours through Pousada Trijunção, one of 38 protected areas. Photography by Álbori Ribeiro This article was ...

Brazil’s Cerrado wetlands are a hidden climate powerhouse, storing carbon at densities up to six times greater than the ...

Cattle pasture occupies an area larger than France in Brazil’s Cerrado biome, or 29% of the planet’s most biodiverse savanna. Research from the University of Brasília shows that more than half of this ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published in New Phytologist shows that one of South ...

The Cerrado savannah includes many traditional communities. Among them are the geraizeiros who arrived in Western Bahia as much as 200 years ago. For those many years, they occupied small communal ...

The rate of deforestation in the Cerrado is the lowest since the publication of official data began, but these are still worrying levels for the world’s most biodiverse savannah. Brasília, December 11 ...

he region between the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia is considered the showcase of Brazilian agribusiness, with a high productions of soy and corn for export. Photograph: Marizilda ...