A new study shows that dry, warm, and flammable conditions have skyrocketed across the continent, favoring the spread of uncontrolled fire. South America Is Drying Up originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy ...

Cerrado, which is less well-known than the neighbouring Amazon and Pantanal wetlands, has a superpower: over millions of ...

JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, has over the last five years been buying cattle from farms that were caught ...

A new U.N. report has found the world will warm by twice the 1.5-degree-Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement by 2100 if countries fail to slash greenhouse gas emissions right now.

Bold and his fellow jaguars are surviving the worst fires to engulf the world’s largest tropical wetlands in central-western Brazil, the Pantanal. Unlike other animals trapped and burnt to ...

Brazilian state authorities released this drone footage showing chemically damaged forest in the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland.Credit... Supported by By Jack Nicas and Flávia Milhorance ...

Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Many extraordinary stories have been told about the Bahia Emerald, a large portion of them false. It has been asserted that panthers, or some other ferocious beasts, attacked a ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the planet’s largest tropical wetland, is facing unprecedented wildfires. Over 7,000 square miles have been scorched since the start of the year, marking the most severe fires ...

Brazil is in the midst of its worst drought in recorded ... famously home to millions of species and much of the world's natural landscape. The Pantanal is one of the world's largest wetlands, also ...