Tackling monoculture and deforestation in the Amazon, Cuíca is using Brazilian chestnuts to make a plant-based milk that ...

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems ... a wide array of plants and animals to flourish.

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

They also support plant and animal life ... remaining in the rainforest. Their reduced numbers are due to poachers and habitat loss. Location: Coastal region of Brazil Size: 9.5-10.3 inches ...

With successive records of high temperatures around the world and an increase in extreme weather events, the ecological ...

XINGUARA, Brazil -Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil’s “King of Cattle,” great wealth – ...

Embrapa, the public agricultural research agency, is committed to combining livestock, crops, and trees to turn around a ...

Brazil-based meat giant JBS hopes an upcoming shareholder vote will put it one step closer to a listing on the New York Stock ...

From meme stars to conservation icons, the capybara is experiencing a popularity boom. Learn more about these rodents that ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Slaughterhouses that agreed ... for roughly half of the country’s total output. The Amazon rainforest is an important regulator of climate, as trees absorb carbon ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

The Amazon rainforest is an important regulator of ... another greenhouse gas. Brazil consumes most of its beef production, but exports are growing. China is by far the largest buyer, followed ...