The Amazon is still burning, but it's not the only environmental crisis Brazil is staring down at the moment. Just a few miles south of the rainforest is Brazil's Cerrado region, a massive, ...

Since the mid-1970s, the Cerrado region of Brazil, a tropical savanna, has been transformed into one of the world’s largest grain-growing areas. Today the Cerrado region accounts for 70 percent of ...

The Brazilian government last week announced a new plan to protect the Cerrado, a massive expanse of biologically diverse savanna that is under huge pressure from encroaching development. Brasilia, ...

Deforestation has surged in Brazil's Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, by nearly 45% compared to 2022 levels, according to data released Friday by the government's monitoring agency. The ...

Brazil is a land like no other. It is home to the Amazon Rainforest and other environmentally vital tropical landscapes like the Cerrado, a vast biodiverse region of more than 200 million hectares.

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 includes ...

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 ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s cerrado, a wooded grassland that covers more than two million square kilometers and is the country’s second largest biome, fell 11 precent relative to a year ago. According ...

Home to almost half of Brazil’s agriculture, the country’s leaders are looking toward the Cerrado to accelerate economic development. The Cerrado is also home to indigenous communities and traditional ...

Agricultural expansion in Brazil's Cerrado is quickly chewing up rainforests and savannas -- even altering the region's water cycle, a new study finds. Agricultural expansion in Brazil's Cerrado is ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Dec., 2003), pp. 653-659 (7 pages) Bothrops moojeni is a member of the atrox group that occurs in central and southeastern Brazil and adjacent Paraguay and ...

The Amazon has it bad, but the Cerrado may have it even worse. After all, at least you’ve actually heard of the Amazon. The Cerrado isn’t as big, but it is still one of the largest and most important ...