Among Brazilian states, Roraima experienced the largest area burned in the first three months of the year, with 415,700 ...

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

Despite having been deforested to the extent that only 10% of its original expanse remains, the Atlantic Forest is still literally in most Brazilians’ back yard. One in every seven people in Brazil ...

The Caatinga is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil and is home to the largest contiguous area of seasonally dry ...

The Pantanal lies in the west of Brazil. It is hot all year round, with wet and dry seasons. A range of plants grow here, from tropical rainforest trees to grasses. The Atlantic Forest runs along ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

The Atlantic Forest initially spanned 500,000 square kilometres, shared between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. However, only 7.4% of the forest is left today – or about 35,000 square ...

The Pantanal lies in the west of Brazil. It is hot all year round, with wet and dry seasons. A range of plants grow here, from tropical rainforest trees to grasses. The Atlantic Forest runs along ...