Tag: brazil

The Braziliant researcher would have celebrated his 100th birthday today.

This goes to show that if politicians really want to, they can protect the rainforests.

Leaders of Amazonian countries will meet this week to protect the rainforest.

It's all fake.

I would have been fine with just the green head and yellow belly, honestly.

A total 4,281 square miles of forest were cleared in the 12 months leading to August.

The Amazon is burning while President Bolsonaro is almost cheering from the sidelines.

The Amazon fires have now reached the Pantanal amid a severe drought.

The story of last year is repeating itself.

No sign of things slowing down in the most affected countries.

Things could get much worse in the coming months.

New records for largest and longest-lasting lightning bolts

The smoke from the forest fires could pile on the burden caused by the pandemic.

Another likely attempt by the Bolsonaro administration to downplay the pandemic.

Satellite data shows that 2019 was the third most devastating year since the turn of the century.

The country is only behind the US in number of positive COVID-19 cases

The country surpassed Russia and is now behind the US

The rate of deforestation rose by 55% in the first four months of the year compared to 2019.

As the president ignores the problem, mass graves are being dug across the country.

The region could turn into a savanna in just a few decades

The researchers plan to search for compounds (or existing drugs) that can kill the new parasite efficiently.

More than 34,000 fires have so far affected Bolivia.

Technically, it's piles of construction waste, in the termites' eyes.

There is no cure for yellow fever, but there is a vaccine.

Some are big enough to drive a car through.

Brazil isn't respecting its part of the deal.

The key to fighting Zika might be as simple as a common flower and some water.

A new paper suggests that we've been overlooking how two key human responses to climate -- the total area farmed ...

Scientific American recently reported that the three countries most affected by dengue fever have approved the use of the first ...

The government has declared a state of emergency in the most affected areas while scientists are trying to figure out ...

Biologists have recently identified a new species of harvestman (daddy longlegs spider) near the town of Monjolos in Minas Gerais, ...

The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine spells an absolute catastrophe, with effects that could haunt Brazil for ...

The fossils were discovered in the Parnaiba Basin of north-eastern Brazil, and are some 278 million years old, corresponding to ...

Seven miniature species of frogs living on seven different mountain tops sounds like the premise for the next Kung Fu ...

The states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais are running out of water. According to a Brazilian ...

Credit: Alexine Keuroghlian/WCS In quite an interesting discovery, Wildlife Conservation Society biologists have discovered cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers between ...

This is truly one of the days when you could feel ashamed to be human. According to reports, loggers in ...

It's a black period for Brazil's environment, and things will get even worse in days to follow; the government just ...

Another mystery, even bigger than the one with the birds in Arkansas is puzzling researchers from all over the world, ...