It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems to have been shut off from the rest of the world.

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

The Caatinga has a semi-arid climate and is found in north east Brazil. It is hot all year round and dry for most of the year. Xerophytes, stunted trees and thorny bushes grow here. The Cerrado ...

The Caatinga has a semi-arid climate and is found in north east Brazil. It is hot all year round and dry for most of the year. Xerophytes, stunted trees and thorny bushes grow here. The Cerrado ...

The Cerrado savanna, which lies mostly in Brazil, is one of the world’s most biodiverse places and is critically important for protecting the global climate. And it is under threat. A call to end all ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, created by the convergence of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing down from the eastern Andes and the high plateaus of the Cerrado, the ...

The Cerrado, Brazil's savanna biome ... and compare them with the positions on the map. Eventually, we discovered the errors could be corrected simply by turning the network of coordinates ...