The CAFE-Brazil measurement campaign provided ... half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. "The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these ...

This past December, I was driving down the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near the city of Santarém, in northern Brazil ... ever deeper into the rainforest. “The Amazon offers far more land than ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

The Brazilian Amazon was ravaged by a staggering 140,000 fires last year -- many of them started to clear land for livestock or crops. A blaze in Capoto/Jarina wiped out crops and medicinal plants ...

Brazil's been enduring severe water shortages, from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. Here's what the South American country is getting wrong.

BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand ...

Ahead of Brazil hosting ... project in the Amazon. A: There is increasingly more deforestation, river pollution, periods of rain that flood everything and kill the plants that provide food.

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Many of them have ... He explains that plants play an important role in regulating the levels of carbon dioxide ...

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