The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now, drought has advanced a barrier of dead vegetation through this once-humid ...

The Pampas are fertile lowlands in the south of Brazil. They have hot summers, cooler winters and rainfall all year round. The vegetation here is largely grasses. Brazil has six biomes.

Brazil reported growth in cattle slaughter for the final quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results from the Quarterly ...

Some 30.8 million hectares (119,000 square miles) of vegetation were burned in Brazil in 2024, a 79 percent increase from 2023, monitoring platform MapBiomas reported. Fires in the Amazon ...

That meant that Mato Grosso properties sitting on the Amazon biome, which have to protect 80% of native vegetation as per Brazil's Forestry Code, could have been converted into Cerrado areas ...

A small plane crashed Saturday in Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state, killing two people on board, authorities said.