The Brazilian Cerrado, recognized as one of the world’s most species-diverse and threatened ecodomains on the planet, faces increasing pressure from large-scale agriculture and land conversion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's regular safari tours through Pousada Trijunção, one of 38 protected areas. Photography by Álbori Ribeiro This article was ...

More worrisome now is the deforestation in the Cerrado, a tropical savanna roughly the size of Mexico. Home to 60 percent of Brazil’s agricultural production and 22 percent of global soy exports, ...

Research from Brazil shows that tree species adapted to extreme heat may be key to reforesting areas affected by fires. The ongoing research focuses on plants native to the Cerrado savanna, a biome ...

For thousands of years, plants have evolved in the presence of wildfires in the Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna-like biome. Scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) studied the effect of smoke on ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian coffee producers in the country's Cerrado Mineiro, a stronghold for growing Arabica beans, are testing Conilon varieties amid climate change and other concerns, Nestle's ...

Huge blazes are spreading hundreds of miles across some of the most biodiverse parts of Brazil, with the worst of the annual fire season still weeks away. By Ana Ionova Reporting from Rio de Janeiro ...

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This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). I’m face to face with a black jaguar. With the unhurried, nonchalant gait of a predator at the top of its food chain, the feline ambles ...