Fly above the vast, iconic landscapes of the Cerrado, the highly diverse tropical savanna of Brazil, with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the sheer immensity of this biome, often characterized ...

You’ve heard of the Amazon rainforest, but have you heard of its neighbor, the cerrado? It’s a vast savanna — the most biodiverse in the world — of swaying grasses punctuated by trees. But its most ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published in New Phytologist shows that one of South ...

The Cerrado savanna occupies about 26% of Brazil and is home to more than 12,000 plant species and diverse animal life. It's also speckled with groundwater-fed wetlands that serve as the headwaters ...

A comprehensive new review synthesizing decades of research warns that the Brazilian Cerrado—a biodiversity hotspot, known for its vast inverted forests—is facing a massive, multi-faceted ecological ...

TOCANTINIA, Brazil — Fire began crackling like approaching rain on a recent morning in the Xerente Indigenous Territory in Tocantins in northern Brazil. But the Indigenous residents weren't afraid and ...