Step foot in South America, and you’ll find yerba mate everywhere — lining the shelves of gas stations and grocery stores, ...

Historic Indigenous leaders still fell. Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, who led his Xingu people for five decades. Paulinho Paiakan, of the Kayapó. Artist and healer Vovó Bernaldina… from the Macuxi tribe ...

Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of ...

They appeared at dusk. The day was ending in a pink-and-yellow sky when a cub moved in the grass. Its mother appeared next, ...

The national area with these systems now totals 70,000 km2, the same as the territory of Ireland or half the Brazilian state of Amapá.

The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now ...

Experts call for inspections and urgent measures to prevent wildlife drownings across western Brazilian state of Bahia ...

Brazilian and British researchers have observed that a small crustacean that changes color according to the marine vegetation ...

Black mangroves, a subtropical plant that has expanded across Louisiana’s coasts and wetlands since the 1980s, don’t tolerate frost, said Twilley. They’re not native to Louisiana but are ...

Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for ...

The area affected by wildfires in Brazil reached approximately 30.9 ... Of the total affected area, 73% consisted of native vegetation. SÃO PAULO (SP) - 7.10.24 - Fire in Ribeirão Corrente ...